Alinea Restaurant Chicago Quotes

#1. To him who is afraid, everything rustles.

Sophocles

#2. As a manager you know when someone is below his or her usual performance. What is harder to know is whether people are giving everything they have to give. Asking whether people are giving their best gives them the opportunity to push themselves beyond their previous limits.

Liz Wiseman

#3. Ain't but three things in this world worth a solitary dime/
But old dogs, children, and watermelon wine

Tom T. Hall

#4. Blind is he who will not see!

Victor Hugo

#5. Passing Proposition 8 did not stop LGBTQ couples from going to sleep that night with their partners. What it did accomplish, however, was remind the gay community once again that they are not looked at as equals, that the God of so many does not love them.

Timothy Kurek

#6. My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypical rich, air-headed heiresses. These were my friends. They were smart and multifaceted. They had interests and passions. They wanted to become lawyers and doctors and writers and filmmakers.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#7. Writing my books I enjoy. It is the thinking them out that is apt to blot the sunshine from my life.

P.G. Wodehouse

#8. An artist, if he is truly an artist, is only interested in one thing and that is to wake up the minds of men, to have mankind and womankind realize that there is something greater than what we see on the surface.

Marvin Gaye

#9. They smiled too much, were quick to compliment and support, but behind the stretched lips and soft words was a judgment. No one was ever good enough - at least not until they were dead. The dead were exemplary.

Michael J. Sullivan

#10. Make every decision based on your last years of life instead of your next 10.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#11. Appreciated. In any case, Satan, the Archdevil and ruler of Hell, looms

Thomas Cahill

#12. More than Peanut M&Ms,

R.S. Grey

#13. The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

Charles Olson

#14. I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did.

Donna Mills

#15. One of the most exciting intellectual moments of my career was my 1948 discovery of Knut Wicksell's unknown and untranslated dissertation, 'Finanztheoretische Untersuchungen,' buried in the dusty stacks of Chicago's old Harper Library.

James M. Buchanan