Makino Restaurant Quotes

#1. The basin fell to the ground broken, and the water flowed to the feet of Madame Defarge. By strange stern ways, and through much staining blood, those feet had come to meet that water.

Charles Dickens

#2. Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

Neil Gaiman

#3. You can't draw blood from a stone,

Lena Dunham

#4. The best birthday present is an empty box. Smile, it contains all my love for you.

Jarod Kintz

#5. The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.

Angelina Grimke

#6. If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#7. To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

Abraham H. Maslow

#8. The serious fact is that the bulk of the really important things economics has to teach are things that people would see for themselves if they were willing to see. - Frank Knight, "The Role of Principles in Economics and Politics

Bryan Caplan

#9. I don't have moments of weakness. I'm Rik Mayall.

Rik Mayall

#10. She taught me,' said Ta-thea, 'that if you do not have couragem all other virtues may be lost, because you cannot keep even love if you are not prepared to fight for it, to endure the hurt it brings, and hold on, no matter the cost.

Anne Perry

#11. I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.

Carl Hiaasen

#12. Losing my father at a tender age was hard, and I felt it more so while growing up when I needed a father to talk to. Especially while pursuing an acting career where I would have loved his guidance and advice, since it was his passion as well.

Ajay Mehta