Ponziani Opening Quotes & Sayings

One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it? — Tom Baker

Mindfulness is to understand that there is a no moment left to be unhappy. — Amit Ray

Oh Lord, make us able
To eat all that's on this table,
And if there's some we haven't got
Bring it to us while it's hot — Wendell Berry

Long intervals frequently elapse between the discovery of new principles in science and their practical application ... Those intellectual qualifications, which give birth to new principles or to new methods, are of quite a different order from those which are necessary for their practical application. — Charles Babbage

Everything that I play as an actress is a different aspect of me. — Virginia Madsen

A piano tuner used to come over to our house when I was young. He was a blind man, his eyes burnt-out holes in his head, his body all bent. I remember how strange he looked against the grandeur of our lives, how he stooped over that massive multitoothed instrument and tweaked its tones. The piano never looked any different after he'd worked on it, but when I pressed a C key or the black bar of an F minor, the note sprung out richer, as though chocolate and spices had been added to a flat sound. This was what was different. It was as though I'd been visited by a blind piano tuner who had crept into my apartment at night, who had tweaked the ivory bones of my body, the taut strings in my skull, and now, when I pressed on myself, the same notes but with a mellower, fuller sound sprang out. — Lauren Slater

Being able to read a book in another language is a source of ego-stroking pride. — Emily O'Beirne

Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices. — Rebecca West

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities. — Isaac D'Israeli