Pizzeria Lola Quotes & Sayings

When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend. — Gabrielle Zevin

Peace and not war is the father of all things. — Ludwig Von Mises

My little brothers loved baseball. I'm not as big on that as basketball or football, but I understand the game. — Jurnee Smollett

I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed. — Robert Cray

You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell? — Jenkin Lloyd Jones

A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall. Books perfume and give weight to a room. A bookcase is as good as a view, as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms, fogs, zephyrs.
I read about a family whose apartment consists of a series of spaces so strictly planned that they are obliged to give away their books as soon as they've read them. I think they have misunderstood the way books work.
Reading a book is only the first step in the relationship. After you've finished it, the book enters on its real career. It stand there as a badge, a blackmailer, a monument, a scar. It's both a flaw in the room, like a crack in the plaster, and a decoration. The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
- in "About books; recoiling, rereading, retelling", The New York Times, February 22, 1987 — Anatole Broyard

My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures in my life, really. I had my godfather, but he's more like a grandfather, so I was quite sheltered. I've never tried to find my father. — Catherine Tate

The waters hold all heaven within their heart. — Jan Karon

I don't personally believe in an arrived state of enlightenment. I feel that being human is a constant practice of return. We have moments of clarity, and then we're confused. We have incredibly sensitive periods of being awake, and then we're numb. Being human is a very universal and a very personal practice of learning how to return when we can't get access to what we know. — Mark Nepo

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

As you change your thoughts and your mental vision, you are changing your reality. — Alice Hocker

Some rather seek up high
Than dig and grind that inner truth — Saul Williams