Zavos Architecture Quotes & Sayings

Well, I haven't really anything to eat at home, I began, but then stopped, as I realised that a dreary revelation of the state of one's larder was hardly the way to respond to an invitation to dinner. — Barbara Pym

It felt better to forgive him. I hardly wanted him to know, that it could be so easy, just to let him off the hook. I wouldn't have to carry him then. — Louise Wareham Leonard

Your life is your spiritual path.
It's what's right in front of you. You can't live anyone else's life. The task is to live yours and stop trying to copy one you think looks better. — Sandy Nathan

The heart of entrepreneurship is never about what we have. It's about what we do. — Jessica Jackley

I can cook really well. I started cooking as a kid, so I can fend for myself in the kitchen and even do a little gourmet action. — Ty Pennington

When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game. — Jesse Ventura

Rosemary, why do you love books so much?"
( ... )
"Well, actually, I love books because books are my best friends. — Robin Sloan

Toby's nose was very red, and his eye-lids were very red, and he winked very much, and his shoulders were very near his ears and his legs were very stiff, and altogether he was evidently a long way upon the frosty of cool. — Charles Dickens

Robert Townson at Varese is a huge fan of film music and has really done a lot to educate audiences about film music and scores. — Marco Beltrami

I'm not nearly as well organized as I would like. I am a creature of to-do lists and calendars - if something doesn't get onto my Google Calendar, I don't show up for it. — Ethan Zuckerman

In a sense, journalism can be both helpful and detrimental to a writer of fiction because the kind of writing you need to do as a journalist is so different. It has to be clear, unambiguous, concise, and as a writer often you are trying to do things that are more ambiguous. I find that writing fiction is often an antidote to reading and writing too much journalism. — Aravind Adiga

Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting anyone else, I have lived, as completely as it was possible, the life of my choice. I have been free ... I have done the work I wished to do for the sake of that work alone. — Ellen Glasgow

He (Jesus) came so that we might receive new life through supernatural regeneration. — David Platt

Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a feeling of generality or dispersal. But in my experience, true sex is so particular, so peculiar to the person who yearns for it. Only he or she, and no one else, would desire so very much that very person under those circumstances. In fiction, I miss that sense of terrific specificity. — Anatole Broyard