Vuestra Quotes & Sayings

Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying. — Jennifer Stone

Colter searched for original Mexican tiles to use as patterns for copies, and during the search, a barrel of old tile letters was found in a cellar corner. She decided to use the letters on the walls of the Cocina Cantina to spell out old Spanish proverbs about eating and drinking. Above the bar was "A vuestra salud" [to your health], and in another room, "Not with whom you were born, but with whom you pasture. — Virginia L. Grattan

All chefs have pictures of food in their phones, stuffed pig's ears and pigs' heads and the like. — April Bloomfield

Performing in front of a live audience can be pretty intimidating, so having a full head of hair was important to me. — Joey Fatone

You know, there's pride, and then there's stupidity — Robert Galbraith

I watch the back of Abel's head for a moment before opening the door. Coming to him was the right thing to do, it always was. Abel is my other half. If ever there was someone to release me of a weak heart, it would be him. — Celia Mcmahon

In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent. — John Arlott

Whether all grow black, or all grow bright, or all remain grey, it is grey we need, to begin with, because of what it is, and of what it can do, made of bright and black, able to shed the former, or the latter, and be the latter or the former alone. But perhaps I am the prey, on the subject of grey, in the grey, to delusions. — Samuel Beckett

Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health. — Barbara Johnson

There's no art but has some business to it and no business but some art. — Inez Haynes Irwin

These young men, in other words, represented a variety of types, but one thing they had in common was that they'd all given up on committing positively to anything in life. This was not their fault, however. The blame lay with a certain ubiquitous spirit of the times, transmitted to them by their respective mothers. And perhaps it goes without saying that this "spirit of the times" was in fact an oppressive value system based primarily upon the absolute certainty that nothing in this world was ever going to change. — Ryu Murakami

Haven, baby, I need you to wake up. You have to make it. I can't do this if you don't. — J.M. Darhower

Occasionally, I will come across something that has lost its label over the years - maybe the client didn't want to declare the dress at customs and took the label out - but I'll recognize it from an image that I've seen in Vogue, or a little thumbnail sketch. — Hamish Bowles

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found. — Edward Thorndike

Mental inertia is death. — Timothy Thomas Fortune