Balzar Quotes

#1. Whenever I am feeling blue, I like to go to the Balzar and watch a waiter gravely transfer a steak au poivre and its accompaniments from an oval platter to a plate, item by item. It reaffirms my faith in the sanity of superfluous civilization.

Adam Gopnik

#2. In the middle of the mayhem, you came and sang a song of melancholy. You promised a wildfire, but instead choked the light that was struggling hard for survival. Eventually when all the light went off. You left, complaining about the darkness.

Akshay Vasu

#3. Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. At 30-below, mushers will begin to put fleece jackets on their more sensitive dogs. Males are affixed with pile jockstraps, "peter heaters," to guard against frostbite.

John Balzar

#5. That has to be one of the dumbest phrases Christians use: "finding God's will." We don't have to "find" God's will, because it's not lost. "The Lord ... is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9 NKJV). His will is that we be involved in that mission.

J.D. Greear

#6. [We need] to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit and the tremendous untapped potential in our prisons.

Jeff Smith

#7. She is a jewel far richer than a mountain of coin could bring!

Andrea Zuvich

#8. I opened my purse, shifted through panty shields, bills, and birth control pills - I call them poppa-stoppas - and took out my menstrual calendar.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#9. One begins to go about with the sluggish step of a philosopher or a clochard, as more and more vital gestures become reduced to mere instincts of preservation, to a conscience more alert not to be deceived than to grasp truth.

Julio Cortazar