Trockadero Quotes & Sayings

I have a passion for animals and spend a lot of my spare time working with various organizations here in Toronto. — Lara Jean Chorostecki

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority. — Tom Hopkins

Pouring espresso is an art, one that requires the barista to care about the quality of the beverage. — Howard Schultz

Sooner or later your fingers close on that one moist-cold spud that the spade has accidentally sliced clean through, shining wetly white and giving off the most unearthly of earthly aromas. It's the smell of fresh soil in the spring, but fresh soil somehow distilled or improved upon, as if that wild, primordial scene has been refined and bottled: eau de pomme de terre. You can smell the cold inhuman earth in it, but there's the cozy kitchen to, for the smell of potatoes is, at least by now, to us, the smell of comfort itself, a smell as blankly welcoming as spud flesh, a whiteness that takes up memories and sentiments as easily as flavors. To smell a raw potato is to stand on the very threshold of the domestic and the wild. (241) — Michael Pollan

As I was escorted outside by the officers, my friends looked back at me with blank expressions. I don't think they knew what to say to me. I had lied to them about my home life. They had always been there for me and probably would have understood if I had told them the truth from the start, but it was too late. All the lies I had told them about having a perfect family had been shattered by that one incident. — Jen Naumann

I've lost count of all my assistant coaches who have been made head coaches. — Sid Gillman

The constellations this year seem unfavourable to rebels. — Cesare Borgia

The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation. — Jonathan Larson

The action of a thing is the same as the naming of it - is, in fact, the real name. The trees creak and they are saying, 'trees creak through the long night.' The long night - what is it? Trees creaking. There wasn't anything that tied life's moments together, except life. And when it was gone? — Jesse Ball

Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.