Sylvias Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

Taylor Swift is pretty hip ... She seems pretty honest. I think that's hip. She's promoting knowing yourself, and that's the best idol. — Amanda Seyfried

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends. — Ambrose Bierce

That everybody can do something, without regard to how old or young they are, rich or poor or middle class they are, how busy or not busy they are and what level skills they have. Everyone can do something. And everybody should do something ... And if you do it, you'll be happier. — William J. Clinton

Even if a movie's not a hit, it still has to have something to do with the big thing, which is the stand-up. It pays the most, first of all. It's the thing that I can do at a high, high level. Amongst the best. — Scott Raab

I've always loved Houdini, not just because of what he did, but also because of what he stood for. He was a self-made man in a time when the idea of celebrity was still new, and he used his celebrity for good. — Michael Redhill

It is because God is infinitely great and good that his glory is the end of all things; and his good pleasure the highest reason for whatever comes to pass. What is man that he should contend with God, or presume that his interests rather than God's glory should be made the final end? — Charles Hodge

I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis. — Mary MacLane

You do know that the West Bank means the West Bank of the Jordan River, don't you? — James Martin

I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content. — Richard Dawkins

I began to meditate upon the writer's life. It is full of tribulation. First he must endure poverty and the world's indifference; then, having achieved a measure of success, he must submit to a good grace of its hazards...But he has one compensation, Whenever he has anything on his mind, whether it be a harassing reflection, grief at the death of a friend, unrequited love, wounded pride, anger at the treachery of someone to whom he has shown kindness, in short any emotion or any perplexing thought, he has only to put it down in black and white, using it as a theme of a story or the decoration of an essay, to forget all about it. He is the only free man. — W. Somerset Maugham

It is not money that makes a man, it is his virtues. — Sunday Adelaja

Playing lifts you out of yourself into a delirious place. — Jacqueline Du Pre

One of my favorites is chilaquiles. It's corn tortilla chips in a simple, brothy tomato sauce with a little chile for heat. It's wonderfully homey. It has irresistible crispy bits and I love to eat it. And you can play around with it - add chicken, sliced red onions, or all these different things that can easily dress it up. — Rick Bayless

Some folk are born wild. Some have wildness thrust upon them. — Flora Kennedy

I would encourage the next commander in chief to be more cooperative and communicative with Congress, particularly when entering a conflict. — Don Young