Respectos Quotes & Sayings

The tiny waiter, who looks to be about ninety-seven years old, comes over and wheezes through what I assume are the specials. Szabolcs, his nametag says. I can't understand a word he says. He may be telling me that his great-great-grandchildren are in the kitchen being gnawed on by a pack of wolves. I nod and smile. "I'll have the chicken," I say. Szabolcs asks something that has a lot of sht and tsz and ejht sounds in it. "Sounds good," I tell him. This is how people end up eating cats, I believe. — Kristan Higgins

December 7th, 1941
a date which will live in infamy — Franklin D. Roosevelt

My head is in India, yet my body remains in Britain. I straddle the world like a colossus. Like a 5ft. 7in. colossus. — Sanjeev Bhaskar

To conceal resentment against a person, and appear friendly with him; - Tso Ch'iu-ming was ashamed of such conduct. — Confucius

The hand is quicker than the eye is,
but somewhat slower than the fly is. — Richard Armour

Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Now, in the sixties we were naive, like children. Everybody went back to their rooms and said 'We didn't get a wonderful world of just flowers and peace and happy chocolate, and it won't be just pretty and beautiful all the time,' and just like babies everyone went back to their rooms and sulked. 'We're going to stay in our rooms and play rock and roll and not do anything else, because the world's a nasty horrible place, because it didn't give us everything we cried for.' Right? Crying for it wasn't enough. — John Lennon

I want to make big movies that appeal to a lot of people. That's satisfying to me. — Steve Antin

I'm always conscious of what I'm writing, conscious of what the actor may ask me. I have a defense for nearly every line in the song. — Stephen Sondheim