Puglianos Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

Just remember, Braithwaite. While you were learning to be a fool at Oxford I was learning to kill men. And I learned well. — Bernard Cornwell

As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day. — Vin Scully

Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world. — Jordan Ellenberg

There was no established procedure for evasive action. All you needed was fear, and Yossarian had plenty of that, more fear than Orr or Hungry Joe, more fear even than Dunbar, who had resigned himself submissively to the idea that he must die someday — Joseph Heller

Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth.
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth. — Bob Dylan

There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing him - or he starts to see it having a life of its own that doesn't have anything to do with his ego or his desire to 'be a good writer.' — George Saunders

When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The very fact that they have to be drilled shows that they are alien to the natural workings of the language system. One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with language than the criteria for judging cats at a cat show have to do with mammalian biology. — Steven Pinker

All employees are obliged to act in concert, to behave in accordance with corporate form and corporate law. If someone attempted to revolt against these teets, it would only result in the corporation throwing the person out, and replacing that person with another who would act according to the rules. Form determines content: Corporations are machines. — Jerry Mander

Huh? Windows was designed to keep the idiots away from Unix so we could hack in peace. Let's not break that. — Tom Christiansen

The ideas that the colonists put forward, rather than creating a new condition of fact, expressed one that has long existed; they articulated and in so doing generalized, systematized, gave moral sanction to what had emerged haphazardly, incompletely and insensibly, from the chaotic factionalism of colonial politics. — Bernard Bailyn

I got a divorce because my ex-wife left me for another woman. — Woody Allen

I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window. — Eddie Campbell