Loconte Restaurant Quotes

#1. A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs a shudder through the nether empire; and new emissaries are trained with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap and hoodwink and handcuff him.

Thomas Carlyle

#2. What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses.

David Baker

#3. All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.

Zaha Hadid

#4. This game is so elusive. You try to maintain the peaks and level up the valleys.

Tom Watson

#5. Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

Iain M. Banks

#6. Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays.

Dimebag Darrell

#7. We don't really watch basketball in Australia.

Iggy Azalea

#8. Rome changed the New Testament catholicity (which purifies and sanctifies as it's proper domain the whole of life) and has substituted in its place a dualism which separates the supernatural from the natural.

Henry R. Van Til

#9. Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.

E.B. White

#10. In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.

William Pollard

#11. Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

Alice Hoffman