Zorbas Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

Only the great warriors fall down from their horses; one would not fall who rides a donkey cart. — Waheed Ibne Musa

Only in a state of disconnection do we suffer and struggle. The divine intention is for every human being to enjoy unlimited success. — Deepak Chopra

TROY: Death ain't nothing. I done seen him. Done wrasled with him. You can't tell me nothing about death. death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner. And you know what I'll do to that! Lookee here, Bono...am I lying? You get one of them fastballs, about waist high, over the outside corner of the plate where you can get the meat of the bat on it...and good god! You can kiss it goodbye. Now, am I lying? — August Wilson

I love these pet names," she said, gazing soulfully up into his eyes, "Nitwit. Sap skull. Termagant. How they make my heart flutter! — Loretta Chase

how to make language go strange and vertical to make a poem. How to trust the moon. — Lidia Yuknavitch

Kant was surely right that our minds "cleave the air" with concepts of substance, space, time, and causality. They are the substrate of our conscious experience. They are the semantic contents of the major elements of syntax: non, preposition, tense, verb. They give us the vocabulary, verbal and mental, with which we reason about the physical and social world. Because they are gadgets in the brain rather than readouts of reality, they present us with paradoxes when we push them to the frontiers of science, philosophy, and law. And as we shall see in the next chapter, they are a source of the metaphors by which we comprehend many other spheres of life. — Steven Pinker

I was nine months old the first time Mamaw saw my mother put Pepsi in my bottle. — J.D. Vance

I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong

i ain't got the energy to argue. i'm an old man and i got to take a shit. — Johnny Shaw