Pettinaris Deli Quotes & Sayings

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography? — John Kenneth Galbraith

A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England — Richard Saul Wurman

The author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to take expected opposition personally. They would not allow grudges to get in the way of more important business. — Chris Matthews

Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred's jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence. — Ronnie Barker

One can speak of an alterity of desire - a paradigm defined outside the tired, tacitly accepted regime, but one comes up short when attempting to posit a framework of desire beyond available, known desires. — Jean Baudrillard

I consider it my duty to acknowledge God. To take down the Ten Commandments and to stop holding prayer would be a violation of that duty. I will not take down the Ten Commandments and I will not stop holding prayer. — Roy Moore

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist. — John Lasseter

And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner. — Rachel Dratch

It's painful to hold out hope for the things that once brought you joy. You have to find ways to make yourself forget. — Christina Baker Kline

If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people. — George Lucas

Don't try and mimic men - how they operate, how they do business, how they direct, write or are creative. They are not perfect. Women do it all differently, and that should be celebrated. We believe in collaboration, we are empathetic and sympathetic and we do tend to connect to stories and people on a different level. And this should all be celebrated. — Pietra Brettkelly

I'm always writing towards a discovery. When I'm writing poems in particular, I'm often writing because a few images coalesced in my mind and I thought, "I wonder why these images are abrading against each other. I wonder what happens if put them in a poem and explore them." I'm trying to learn something every time I write a poem. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily. — Joel Sternfeld