Scudieros Bakery Quotes & Sayings

Mandelstam is the sort of poet who comes along very, very rarely. Even the two Russian poets whose work is often linked with his - Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva - though their work is more "urgent" than most American poetry, seem to me to operate at a lesser charge than Mandelstam. — Christian Wiman

If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down. — Walter Kirn

There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you. — Edward Gorey

Why were the other angels attacking you?"
"It's impolite to ask the victim of violence what they did to be attacked. — Susan Ee

Daniel was a wonderful and trustworthy partner. And a fine prankster as well. — Madeleine Stowe

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead. — Robert Rodriguez

It is a fair adornment of a man and a great convenience both to himself and to all those with whom he converses and deals, to act uprightly, uniformly, and consistently. The practice of piety frees a man from interior distraction and from irresolution in his mind, from duplicity or inconstancy in his character, and from confusion in his proceedings, and consequently securing for others freedom from deception and disappointment in their transactions with him. — Isaac Barrow

It also felt like home, and she wasn't sure she liked it. — Ruth Ozeki

It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions. — Josh Charles

If you've used adverbs, look at them carefully. Adverbs are the weakest words; verbs are the strongest. Many, many times I've found that I have the wrong verb so I'm attempting to cheat and modify the wrong verb by using an adverb. — Chris Offutt

The greenhouse crisis is the bill coming due for the Industrial Revolution. It's not an accident. It's the logical outcome of our world view - the idea that we can control the forces of nature, that we can have short-term expedient gains without paying for them, that there are no limits to exploitation of the environment, that we can produce and consume faster than nature's ability to replenish. — Jeremy Rifkin

To keep a story on a shelf or to remember then retell it means that it will be more likely to exist to those who come after we have gone. — Ander Monson

Professor Galbraith is horrified by the number of Americans who have bought cars with tail fins on them, and I am horrified by the number of Americans who take seriously the proposals of Mr. Galbraith. — William F. Buckley Jr.