Crafted Hospitality Quotes

#1. It is so easy to be average. It takes a little something to be special. Why be around average?

Urban Meyer

#2. Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.

Iris Murdoch

#3. We are what we love to read, and when we admit to loving a book, we admit that the book represents some aspect of ourselves truly, whether it is that we are suckers for romance or pining for adventure or secretly fascinated by crime.

Nina Sankovitch

#4. I think that all filth is local ... and that a joke isn't a joke unless it's at somebody's expense

Christopher Hitchens

#5. Love and hope can conquer hate

Barack Obama

#6. Have you ever had the feeling that you aren't the main character in the story of your life? That you fill a more minor role- supporting cast, maybe, comic relief, or even antagonist.

Elana K. Arnold

#7. It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.

Camille Paglia

#8. Every day the world subtracts from itself and nothing
is immune.

Luanne Castle

#9. I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

Walter Mosley

#10. We work hard when we're in the studio, but then when we take our breaks, we walk outside and look around.

George Strait

#11. There may be ten million different species on the earth, or a hundred million species. The forest canopy is the earth's secret ocean, and it is inhabited by many living things that don't have names, and are vanishing before they have even been seen by human eyes.

Richard Preston

#12. He doesn't believe the dead need our prayers, nor can they use them. But anyone who knows the Bible as he does, knows that our God is a capricious God, and there's no harm in hedging your bets.

Hilary Mantel

#13. Come on! You were the one who told me I was Paris! Rich, handsome, and evil. Of course I want Juliet to test-drive me." He looked over and grinned, enjoying my scowl. "What kind of Paris would I be if I didn't?

Anne Fortier