Wollensky Quotes & Sayings

Separate and together cease to be mutually exclusive and instead become, in psychoanalyst Christopher Bolla's phrase, reciprocally enhancing and mutually informative. — Mark Epstein

Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, its an involuntary explosion of the lungs. The lungs need to replenish themselves with oxygen. So you laugh, you breathe, the blood runs, and everything is circulating. If you dont laugh, youll die. — Mel Brooks

I never cook. My favorite place to eat is Smith & Wollensky in Chicago. — Jonathan Toews

What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?. — John Milton

He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives. — Christian Nestell Bovee

FIFA stands for discipline, respect, fair-play, not just on the field of play, but in our society as well. — Sepp Blatter

When a man and woman are successfully in love, their whole activity is energized and victorious. They walk better, their digestion improves, they think more clearly, their secret worries drop away, the world is fresh and interesting, and they can do more than they dreamed that they could do. In love of this kind sexual intimacy is not the dead end of desire as it is in romantic or promiscuous love, but periodic affirmation of the inward delight of desire pervading an active life. — Walter Lippmann

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem. — Peter Drucker

There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you. — Simon Callow

Go in search of your Gift. The process of finding ourselves is called Love. The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world. — Paulo Coelho

The time has come for Slytherin House to decide upon its loyalties. — J.K. Rowling

I have attempted to draw an accurate and unexaggerated picture of my family in the following pages; they appear as I saw them. To explain some of their more curious ways, however, I feel that I should state that at the time we were in Corfu the family were all quite young: Larry, the eldest, was 23; Leslie was 19; Margo was 18; while I was the youngest, being of the tender and impressionble age of 10. We had never been certain of my mother's age for the simple reason she could never remember her date of birth; all I can say is she was old enough to have four children. My mother also insists that I explain that she is a widow for, as she so penetratingly observed, you never know what people might think. — Gerald Durrell

This shit is potent. I feel ... " He nodded slowly. "Yeah."
I lifted my eyebrows, wondering if he was drunk or high.
Blondie giggled again and pointed at him. "I've never heard you cuss before."
"I don't," Hamilton said blankly before Blondie charged, "But you just said shit."
He laughed and pointed back at her. "So did you."
As they giggled together, I rolled my eyes to the ceiling. Oh, dear God. Someone shoot me now. — Linda Kage

I must go where I am bound to go, and turn my back on the bright shores. I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark. — Ursula K. Le Guin

To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest. — Woodrow Wilson

When I come to Chicago, I gorge myself. I get off the plane and start with Gene and Jude's for two hot dogs with everything, swing by The Fudge Pot for a taffy apple and a turtle, chocolate clusters at Sarah's Pastries and Candies and steak at Smith and Wollensky. I find time for Gino's pizza within the next 12 hours. — James Belushi