Previti Pizza Quotes & Sayings

Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?
In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?
Or is the use its life? — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Advice to Young Poets
Never pretend
to be a unicorn
by sticking a plunger on your head. — Martin Espada

To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself. — William Osler

I would separate marriages into rational and irrational and I would included both love and arranged marriages as irrational marriage.
Rational marriage for me is when you can really understand by mind not by heart. — M.F. Moonzajer

The real reason why I should not like to be in the book trade for life is that while I was in it I lost my love of books. A bookseller has to tell lies about books, and that gives him a distaste for them. — George Orwell

It's interesting to me that killing damages the image of God when it's done by a person, but it doesn't damage it when it's done by the state. — Joseph Lowery

Don't get on a horse that's moving. — Buck Brannaman

Your memorabilia becomes more significant. It does put you in a different category. — Jim Palmer

The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language. — Edward Sapir

You have to have approached a place from all four cardinal points if you want to take it in, and what's more, you also have to have left it from all these points. Otherwise it will quite unexpectedly cross your path three or four times before you are prepared to discover it. One stage further, and you seek it out, you orient your-self by it. The same thing with houses. It is only after having crept along a series of them in search of a very specific one that you come to learn what they contain. From the arches of gates, on the frames of house doors, in letters of varying size, black, blue, yellow, red, in the shape of arrows or in the image of boots or freshly-ironed laundry or a word stoop or a stairway's solid landing, the life leaps out at you, combative, determined, mute. You have to have traveled the streets by streetcar to realize how this running battle con-tinues up along the various stories and finally reaches its decisive pitch on the roofs. — Walter Benjamin

Discerning placement of a comma does not atone for a spiritual coma. — Paramahansa Yogananda

What I've learnt is never to work with the person you are in a relationship with because sometimes you need a break. — Preity Zinta

In terms of the Richter scale this defeat was a force 8 gale. — John Lyall

Wrong way to think about it. Don't try to figure it out all at once. — Jed Rubenfeld