Nolita Pizza Quotes & Sayings

When a man devotes himself body and spirit to a single object, if he has training and aptitude, no matter how mediocre he may be in ordinary affairs, he will produce something so nearly akin to a work of genius as to deceive half the judges who think themselves competent to decide between genius and talent.
("The Phantom Model") — Hume Nisbet

For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. — Rumer Godden

Say that he was right about how bad it was in the Soviet Union, but he just didn't understand the nice materialism of the West. Say that the Soviet Union was bad because the people were deprived of meaningless creature comforts, and that the West is good because the people are flooded with them. — Anthony Esolen

The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed. — John Dewey

Does your height bother you?" he asked softly. "I was teased a lot as a kid," I admitted. "I felt a bit like a freak in high school, but over time, I learned to appreciate it, you know? I simply stopped listening to what others thought about me, and I found that I really liked who I was, what I was. I might not be the most desirable - " "That's — Kelli Jean

The truth is that reason is the enemy of life. — Miguel De Unamuno

Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea. — Charles Lamb

Love will fan the flame, and that flame will warm the heart that's waiting. — Michael W. Smith

He will forget me. He will leave my letters lying about among guns and dogs unanswered. I shall send him poems and he will perhaps reply with a picture post card. But it is for that that I love him. I shall propose meeting - under a clock, by some Cross; and shall wait, and he will not come. It is for that that I love him. Oblivious, almost entirely ignorant, he will pass from my life. And I shall pass, incredible as it seems, into other lives; this is only an escapade perhaps, a prelude only. — Virginia Woolf

Were I forced to describe this woman in one word, that word would be ... herpes. — Jen Lancaster