Quarterdeck Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it's a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a novelist mad. Sometimes it energizes us. — Joanna Scott

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing,
you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
The one that's out always looks the best — Will Rogers

I'm very sad about Mitch McConnell probably getting to be Senate majority leader, if only for two years. To me, he is just everything that is wrong with the world, a bullying obstructionist blowhard liar (not to put too fine a point on it). — Anne Lamott

Sometimes you have to scare people to save their lives. But I'm very much against it if you're trying to sell a product. — Jerry Della Femina

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history. — David McCullough

Wallets can establish connections and change opinions. Things that fall apart can be glued back by money with astonishing alacrity. — Robert Walser

Machida is not a bad guy; he's a victim of the brazilian education system. There are better ways to get electrolytes than drinking piss. — Chael Sonnen

If I'm not mistaken, I believe it was written beforehand. And it just happened in rehearsals Basically giving each person their vocal-line and I ended up getting that line! I'm so grateful I did because it was really special to sing that and you feel something when you sing it it's a very distinct piece that fits perfectly in the production. — Kendra Kassebaum

So people have been hurting and I understand that. And it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me, we would be in a worldwide depression. — Harry Reid

Kurogane: That's what you want, isn't it? Underneath that constant grin, you're keeping everyone away. So that nobody gets involved with you. But look. Just now you checked to see if the kid had a fever, and you're relieved that the princess doesn't see the wretched condition of this world. And in the last country, you used your magic.
Fai: *smiling* I said it, didn't I? I wasn't going to die. And so ...
Kurogane: Yeah, but that was all about you not dying on your own account. Dying for somebody else ... That's a whole new question. Back then, if you hadn't done anything, we would have been captured, and if we handled it wrong, we might have died. But you decided to use magic on your own. You involved yourself in their lives.
Fai: *no longer smiling, looks depressed* I ... I don't want to make anyone unhappy because of their involvement with me. — CLAMP