Portillos Menu Quotes & Sayings

One cannot fight for so long without the scars building on one's soul. — J.A. London

The baby went without a name for weeks. Mom said she wanted to study it first, the way she would the subject of a painting. We had a lot of arguments over what the name should be. I wanted to call her Rosita, after the prettiest girl in my class, but Mom said the name was too Mexican.
"I thought we weren't supposed to be prejudiced," I said.
"It's not being prejudiced," Mom said. "It's a matter of accuracy in labeling. — Jeannette Walls

The minute you say "I can't", it is another wrong affirmation to your subconscious that you choose to lose. — Tsem Tulku

the only Cuba I could ever imagine. That is, until the dead began to rise. — Max Brooks

How do people know they are sane? Can a person be gripped by lunacy, only to be released a short time later, never to relive the episode again? — Dee Remy

It's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept. And then you start to hurry. You work faster and faster and every time you look up there seems to be just as much left to sweep as before, and you try even harder, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop
and still the street stretches away in front of you. That's not the way to do it.
You must never think of the whole street at once, understand? You must only concentrate on the next step, the next breath, the next stroke of the broom, and the next, and the next. Nothing else.
That way you enjoy your work, which is important, because then you make a good job of it. And that's how it ought to be.
And all at once, before you know it, you find you've swept the whole street clean, bit by bit. what's more, you aren't out of breath. That's important, too ... (28-29) — Michael Ende

I hope I was a good example of women's tennis. — Victoria Azarenka