Verandah Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us of life's twin realities, love and hate. — Ravi Zacharias

I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her childhood - E. Nesbit and Dickens, which isn't children's literature at all, but I was sort of steeped in English literature. I thought I was of that world. — Jefferson Mays

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. — Francis Bacon

Those who want to share their code can make products and share their work without additional legal risks. — Eben Moglen

It is right for you, young men, to enrich yourselves with the spoils of all pure literature; but he who would make a favorite of a bad book, simply because it contains a few beautiful passages, might as well caress the hand of an assassin because of the jewelry which sparkles on his fingers. — Joseph Parker

The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind. — Peter Hoeg

A woman's heart has no wrinkles. — George Sand

I was very uncomfortable with all the attention when it first started happening to me. I retreated quite a bit from the world, both physically and emotionally. But then you just accept that you can't control what the rest of the world thinks or does. — Dennis Quaid

You are an artist and I happen to be the bit of color you are using today. — Edith Wharton

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy. — Richard Francis Burton

Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify. — Sara Sheridan