Vendemmia Menu Quotes & Sayings

So I took up those poems with which they seemed to have taken most trouble and asked them what they meant, in order that I might at the same time learn something from them. I am ashamed to tell you the truth, gentlemen, but I must. Almost all the bystanders might have explained the poems better than their authors could. I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say. — Plato

Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy. — Max Lucado

It's not that I've suddenly become stronger or that something has changed. I'm still shaking. But ... We don't have to let those fears stop us. What's most important is that we try to rise above our weakness. — Natsuki Takaya

Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing. — Jennifer Gilmore

Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices. — Amos Oz

When you care about situations or people, you're hopeful that things will get better. When you worry about them, you're afraid they won't. — Donna Labermeier

A lot of times, you have an idea, and all the things you are thinking about might fuel it. But that's not where the idea came from. — Spike Jonze

Am I the only human on board this ship?"
To her deepest chagrin, he hesitated. And when he finally answered, it wasn't what she wanted to hear and gave her no comfort whatsoever. "Define the word 'human. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Lilah stood above them, tall and beautiful, her white hair whipping in the fresh breeze, her clothes streaked with gore, her hazel eyes glowing with fire.
She turned slowly to Nix and in her ghostly whisper of a voice said, I hate boys. — Jonathan Maberry

It's believing in those dreams and facing our fears head on that allows us to live our lives beyond our limits. — Amy Purdy

I care nothing about this Percy. If he has gone over to the Romans, let him perish. Kill — Rick Riordan

The importance of my legacy is not the golf course, it's what my life is, and what my life is intended to be. The game of golf is a game. My family is my life. — Jack Nicklaus

I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament. — Michael Chang

Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. — George Carlin