Pizzimenti Detroit Quotes & Sayings

Every page a victory.
Who cooked the feast for the victors?
Every ten years a great man.
Who paid the bill? — Bertolt Brecht

There is, however, a far more common ailment among us - and that is pride from the bottom looking up. It is manifest in so many ways, such as faultfinding, gossiping, backbiting, and murmuring, living beyond our means, envying, coveting, withholding gratitude and praise that might lift another, and being unforgiving and jealous. — Ezra Taft Benson

I try to keep a pretty one-tracked mind. — Nick Goepper

Have I then no work to work in this great matter of my pardon? None. What work canst thou work? What work of thine can buy forgiveness or make thee fit for the Divine favour? What work has God bidden thee work in order to obtain salvation? None. His Word is very plain and easy to be understood, "To him that worketh not, but believeth in Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness" (Rom. 4:5). There is but one work by which a man can be saved. That work is not thine, but the work of the Son of God. That work is finished. — Horatius Bonar

It's a huge arch of colours in the sky. It's caused by the light from the sun being broken up by water droplets in the atmosphere. — Anonymous

For each ray of light, there's a stroke of dark,
For each possibility, one has gone.
For each action, a reaction.
Ever in balance, the world spins on. — Kiki Sullivan

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out. — Edith Wharton

Personal matters have diverted attention away from the important work Sesame Street is doing, and I cannot allow it to go on any longer. I am deeply sorry to be leaving and am looking forward to resolving these personal matters privately. — Kevin Clash

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service. — Daniel J. Boorstin

Overly literal translations, far from being faithful, actually distort meaning by obscuring sense. — Ken Liu

Billy tried to imagine the birth of Cyril's wife's baby. It would happen in grim lights violently. A dripping thing trying to clutch to its hole. Dredged up and beaten. Blood and drool and womb mud. How cute, this neon shrieker made to plunge upward, odd-headed blob, this marginal electric glow-thing. Dressed and powdered now. Engineered to abstract design. Cling, suck and cry. Follow with the eye. Gloom and drought of unprotected sleep. Had there been a light in her belly, dim briny light in that pillowing womb, dusk enough to light a page, bacterial smear of light, an amniotic gleam that I could taste, old, deep, wet and warm? Return, return to negative unity. — Don DeLillo

Some things were above my pay grade. Actually, there were things that slithered on their bellies that were higher than my pay grade. — Jodi Taylor

I don't know why people persist in believing women are inferior, when it is quite clear that men are the more feeble-minded of the two. — Julia Quinn