Matsys Restaurant Quotes

#1. Music is in the space between the notes.

Claude Debussy

#2. I thought if you knew. you'd kill him.
I nearly did. I nearly killed you too. The trouble with death is - his lips twisted - it's so final.

Marie Treanor

#3. Lo, I am with you alway, is enough for my soul to live upon, let who will forsake me.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#4. I believe in aging gracefully.

Tatjana Patitz

#5. We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.

Thornton Wilder

#6. Democracy ... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

John Adams

#7. What could be more important than inspiring a child to read her first book and giving her the gift of confidence?

Kathy L. Patrick

#8. The CDC reported that 88,000 adults a year die of alcohol consumption.

Susan Cheever

#9. People actually seemed to enjoy recalling that on a Saturday afternoon forty years ago Empire Avenue was bustling with people and cars and commerce, whereas now, of course, you could strafe it with automatic weapons and not harm a soul.

Richard Russo

#10. The title 'Now He Sings, Now He Sobs' comes from 'I Ching,' an ancient Chinese book that I was into in the '60s when I was studying different philosophies and religions.

Chick Corea

#11. Ma was legally blind due to a degenerative eye disease she'd had since birth. This meant she was entitled to welfare, and our lives revolved around the first day of every month when her payment was due.

Liz Murray

#12. It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power.

Robert Mugabe

#13. I love to vacuum. There's just something so satisfying about hearing detritus sucked up into a vacuum. Sand makes such a great sound when being vacuumed off a hardwood floor.

Rachel Nichols

#14. Its decision to suck up an extra helping of toddler soup would cost it dearly.

Allen Dusk