Psarras Tavern Quotes & Sayings

I think it's fine when the mayor of the biggest city in Russia consults the president. — Vladimir Putin

In our age of increasing distractions it's more important than ever to find ways to maintain perspective and remember that life is brief and tender. — Candy Chang

Love is acceptance. When you love someone ... you take them into your heart, and that is surely why it hurts so much when we lose someone we love, because we lose a part of ourselves. — Andrew The Apostle

Normally I'm a movie freak. In fact, I am a movie. It's always me out there in a medium close-up. It's like there's a camera on me, trailing me, getting down every move. A long, slow, tracking shot of my life. — A.M. Homes

I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise. — James Wolfe

The film 'The Cove' made people aware of the Japanese slaughter of whales. — Paul Watson

In 1906 he and Hulda made the first of several trips to London to sift through the records. — Bill Bryson

My go-to jeans are old Levi's I've gotten from boyfriends; they're worn-in and really yummy and perfect. — Laura Wasser

Trust is a careless pursuit at best. At worst, it's a good way to get yourself killed. — Lauren Kate

Touch my things again, whether I'm dead or not, and I'll kick your ass up into your shoulder blades. — MaryJanice Davidson

Whatever Scotland was, it was not a matriarchy; whereas the United States was a profoundly matriarchal society - and much more feminine than would be suggested by all that male bravado. That was a front, and a misleading one at that; underneath the male swagger lay a passive acceptance of female dominance - a fact not always appreciated by outsiders. — Alexander McCall Smith

It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow tree, and it is pumping downy seeds into the air ... spreading DNA whose coded characters spell out specific instructions for building willow trees that will shed a new generation of downy seeds ... It is raining instructions out there; it's raining programs; it's raining tree-growing, fluff-spreading, algorithms. That is not a metaphor, it is the plain truth. It couldn't be any plainer if it were raining floppy discs. — Richard Dawkins

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did. — Roger Bannister

Self-deception is a defining part of our human nature. By recognizing its various forms in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may be able to disarm them and even, in some cases, to employ and enjoy them. This self-knowledge opens up a whole new world before us, rich in beauty and subtlety, and frees us not only to take the best out of it, but also to give it back the best of ourselves, and, in so doing, to fulfil our potential as human beings. I don't really think it's a choice. — Neel Burton

Outgrew the media ... The negativity felt like a disease. — Billy Connolly