Dining Nook Quotes

#1. I can only speak for myself, but when I was growing up in Memphis - and having the Martin Luther King holiday and the moment of pause on April 4th - he was just a statue to me. I wanted to make him a little bit more real to me as a human being.

Katori Hall

#2. My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.

Michael Tippett

#3. The Italians even have a word for the mark left on a table by a moist glass (culacino) while the Gaelic speakers of Scotland, not to be outdone, have a word for the itchiness that overcomes the upper lip just before taking a sip of whiskey. (Wouldn't they just?) It's sgriob.

Bill Bryson

#4. The First Lady is such a fascinating office to hold. You're not elected, but it's very much official. You can see the latitude of power of that office.

Bellamy Young

#5. Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#6. Evil is something you need to fight until it ceases trying to control you.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#7. In the true spirit of the holidays, let the darkness of your moods lead you back up to the light, and when New Year's rolls around, your resolution will be tinged with new authenticity and power.

Elizabeth Lesser

#8. Hammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#9. When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.

Henry Hazlitt

#10. She looked delighted by the prospect. Delighted that he might find the perfect woman.
And there it was. His faith in a higher power reaffirmed. Truly, moments of this ironic perfection could not come about by accident.

Julia Quinn

#11. The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.

James Earl Jones