Opentable Chicago Quotes & Sayings

Boats are safe in a dock, but boats aren't meant for that. — Chris Bradford

I love you, she told him, night after night, for seven years. Faeries cannot lie, and he knew that. — Cassandra Clare

Few sons are like their fathers
most are worse, few better. — Homer

All I know is it feels good to cry that hard. It's like cleaning the leaves out from the gutters. If the leaves sit there too long, they weigh on the metal and hurt the house. — Natalie Taylor

Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual. — Cyril Connolly

There are two ways by which the spirit of a culture may be shriveled. In the first - the Orwellian - culture becomes a prison. In the second - the Huxleyan - culture becomes a burlesque. No — Neil Postman

The world population is nearing seven billion. John Travolta and Farrah Fawcett didn't procreate and produce all seven thousand million of us. Audrey Hepburn and Burt Lancaster didn't personally populate the world. Almost every child that was ever born is the byproduct of two everyday people who found each other attractive enough to go jump in the sack together. Almost every child that was ever born came about because two everyday people thought the other was attractive enough to warrant a second glance. If you want proof that attraction belongs to the individual, go sit on a bench at the mall and look at all the different couples walking by.
You will believe that there literally is someone for everyone. — Dan Pearce

I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more. — Sheryl Sandberg

Would never understand what women want. What do they want? They breath salad and drink human blood. — Saul Bellow

The citizens of the United States cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor of liberty and happiness ... beyond the Atlantic. In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy to do so. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries ... — James Monroe

A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird. — Truman Capote

Tactical engagement principle number one is if you don't have a clear and decisive objective the operation becomes disconnected and unfocused. — Patricia Cornwell

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly. — Neil Gaiman

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee. — Roy Acuff

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity. — Laura Marling