Zaccagninis Pastry Quotes & Sayings

The essential cultural discrimination is not between having and not having or haves and have-nots, but between the superfluous and the indispensable. Wisdom, it seems to me, is always poised upon the knowledge of minimums; it might be thought to be the art of minimums. Granting the frailty, and no doubt the impermanence, of modern technology as a human contrivance, the man who can keep a fire in a stove or on a hearth is not only more durable, but wiser, closer to the meaning of fire, than the man who can only work a thermostat. — Wendell Berry

A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one. — Hillary Clinton

As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, "All mortal greatness is but disease. — Nathaniel Philbrick

Marla dug her fingernails into the palms of her hands as she watched the Coyotes struggle, without success, to make up the twelve-point deficit. It was hot in the arena, and the players were perspiring heavily. Neal was substituting often in order to give them water, but the heat was wearing them down, and the Cougars managed to outscore the Coyotes seventeen to two at the opening of the second half. — Barbara Casey

About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork. — Kin Hubbard

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem. — Eddie Shaw

Perversnes makes one squint ey'd. — George Herbert

This fell sergeant, Death, Is strict in his arrest. — William Shakespeare

Be at peace in the oneness of things, and all errors will disappear by themselves. — Sengcan

More than conventional picture books, the notebook format allows me to leap from words to images, and this free-flowing back-and-forth inspires my best work. It reflects the way I think - sometimes visually, sometimes verbally - with the pictures not there just to illustrate the text but to replace it, to tell their own story. — Marissa Moss

Be a dog, be a jerk, be a devil, be a worst imaginable creature, but never be a good man, for being civilized in chaos is itself a chaos. — Abdul Mueed

I remember playing in a tournament when at home we didn't have light, because my mom spent her last money on my sneakers. — Allen Iverson