Szechwan Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

I've always tried to tell myself that the work itself is the thing, that win, lose, or draw, the work is really what counts. — Julius Erving

Apparently the only people who are supposed to be responsible are the taxpayers - and they are increasingly made responsible for other people's irresponsibility. — Thomas Sowell

A mixture of rapture and cowardice. No action, but all that quivering! — Damon Galgut

I pity the shrimp that matches wits with you Jeeves — P.G. Wodehouse

You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you. — Beth Henley

I'll say that this is probably the best time for poetry since the T'ang dynasty. All the rest of the world is going to school on American poetry in the twentieth century, from Ezra Pound to W. S. Merwin, and for very good reason. We have soaked up influence in the last century like a sponge. It's cross-pollination, first law of biology, that the more variety you have the more health you have. — Sam Hamill

Why dost thou shrink from my approach, O Man? Why dost thou ever flee in fear, and cling To my false rival, Life? I do but bring Thee rest and calm. Then wherefore dost thou ban And curse me? Since the forming of God's plan I have not hurt or harmed a mortal thing, I have bestowed sweet balm for every sting, And peace eternal for earth's stormy span ... — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses
a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness. — Charles Dickens

A knowledge of truth is of little value unless lived in full measure. — Richard G. Scott

What has gone catastrophically wrong in England and the States is that for 30 years we've lost the ability to talk about the state in positive terms. We've raised a generation or two of young people who don't think to ask, 'What can the state do that is good?' — Tony Judt

Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold. — S.E. Hinton

All that counts is the truth. Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas. — Jojo Moyes