Piccolissimo Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

According to Wallace, the expectation that art amuses is a 'poisonous lesson for a would-be artist to grow up with,' since it places all of the power with the audience, sometimes breeding resentment on the part of the author. 'I can see it in myself and in other young writers,' he told McCaffery: 'this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.' Wallace expressed his 'hostility' by writing unwieldy sentences, refusing to fulfill readers' expectations, and 'bludgeoning the reader with data'
all strategies he used to wrestle back some of the power held by modern audiences. — Dorothy M. Kennedy

Let's accept it that dead people are in position for relaxing and watching. — Deyth Banger

You wish, or rather, have decided, to remove a splinter from someone? Very well, but do not go after it with a stick instead of a lancet for you will only drive it deeper. Rough speech and harsh gestures are the stick, while even-tempered instruction and patient reprimand are the lancet. 'Reprove, rebuke, exhort,' says the Apostle (II Tim. 4:2), not 'batter'. — John Climacus

Failure is not an end-it is the means to an end. Study your failures, for they are the scrambled secrets of success. — Romina Russell

We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now. — Troy Vincent

then he spluttered at me, "You impossible, wretched, nonsensical contradiction, what on earth have you done now?" I — Naomi Novik

All people should be treated the same way on earth. — Chief Joseph

I long for the days of good honest crooks. — Edward Bates

The most important thing for me when I wrote [Origins] was that at the end even if Morrigan loved the player, she had this thing that she believed in, that was so important that she would do it regardless of the player. And I think that a lot of players expected that she would bend herself to do whatever they wanted because they've done the romance, gotten her approval up, and of course she would just sort of follow their destiny. But Morrigan has her own destiny. — David Gaider

Oh, she missed herself. It felt like she used to miss Abe, when he was at Harvard and then after they broke up. No, deeper than that: the way she sometimes missed her parents when she was a child and had slept over at a friend's. She was homesick for herself, a longing so deep and unanswerable that for a moment it took her breath away. — Katharine Noel

I think it's actually harder to watch the meet from the media section. You have no control there. — Dominique Dawes