Emphatically Define Quotes

#1. In the restaurant business, as opposed to the theater, center orchestra is an 8 P. M. reservation. Orchestra on the side is 7 or 8:30. Mezzanine is 6 and 9. But people don't take it personally when they call the theater and can't get what they want.

Danny Meyer

#2. Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.

Jack Kornfield

#3. Krishna is wisdom. You are action. One without another is useless. All your battles you will win only when you are together.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#4. I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Or, as it's known to Native Americans - Sarcastic You're Welcomesgiving.

Stephen Colbert

#5. If people were rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricaine

John Green

#6. You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. I came upon a telegram from Eleanor Roosevelt herself to Gypsy Rose Lee that read, 'May your bare ass always be shining'. That was the clincher; I had to write about this woman.

Karen Abbott

#8. All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.

James Cromwell

#9. They keep telling you this: Have faith! But which faith? That is the crucial question! Here is a good faith you can have: Every truth can be changed through our own intelligence! Trust human mind, trust science, and this is a golden faith! Your salvation lies in here, definitely in no other place!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.

Mark Twain

#11. Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

Rebecca West

#12. We are a nation of laws, and we will always act within the bounds of the law.

John O. Brennan

#13. I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.

Philip Johnson