Figlio's Quotes

#1. If memory serves me correctly, and it doesn't always, Kate [DiCamillo] and I met in the fall of 2001 at the former Figlio's restaurant in Minneapolis. We were laughing within a minute of meeting - always a good sign.

Kate DiCamillo

#2. Wiggle 'til you're high, wiggle 'til you're higher, wiggle 'til you vomit fire.

Bob Dylan

#3. Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Golda Meir

#4. Are you worried? About moving to Russia?" She smiled. "No, mio caro figlio. I'm not worried either." She kissed him. "My lovely, living boy," she said, kissing him between each word. "My hope" - kiss - "my happiness" - kiss - "my love, my life, my joy." Kiss, kiss, kiss.

Paullina Simons

#5. Every one is as much bound in thought, word, deed, and mind, as a piece of stone or this table. That I talk to you now is as rigorous in causation as that you listen to me. There is no freedom until you go beyond Maya. That is the real freedom of the soul.

Swami Vivekananda

#6. A clean conscience is expensive, it's the reason most men have to live paycheck to paycheck.

David Wong

#7. If you tell the same lie enough times, people will believe it; and the bigger the lie, the better.

Joseph Goebbels

#8. Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.

Peter McWilliams

#9. You do think, if you have your druthers, 'I want to sort of be, not anonymous, but unknown'. But you don't have your druthers in life, do you?

Richard Greenberg

#10. Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. This land is a monopoly of erroneous ideas.

Adriano Celentano

#12. You can't wait for the end of your problems for you to be present. It has to be done whereever you are - which is now

Eckhart Tolle