Pangea Restaurant Quotes

#1. Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

J.B. Priestley

#2. Public opinion is less tolerant than any system of law.

George Orwell

#3. In my opinion, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from a greaty height.

Barbara Kingsolver

#4. A wave has a right to live her life as a wave, but she must also learn to live her life as water because she is not only a wave. She is also water. And water lives without the fear carried by the wave.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#5. Being both more systematically brutal than chimps and more empathetic than
bonobos, we are by far the most bipolar ape. Our societies are never completely peaceful, never completely competitive, never ruled by sheer selfishness, and never perfectly moral.

Frans De Waal

#6. exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul.

Victor Hugo

#7. If we'd been edible we'd never have lasted this long.

Russell Hoban

#8. What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?

John Green

#9. I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the minority but I think it's crazy for 'literary fiction' to divorce itself from stories that are suspenseful, and assign anything with cops or spies or criminals to some genre ghetto.

Jess Walter

#10. Friedell caught the essential truth about people prone to catch-all theories: they aren't in search of the truth, they're in search of themselves.

Clive James

#11. By 1445 they had reached the mouth of the Senegal River; in 1458 they discovered and colonized the Cape Verde Islands; by 1462 they had reached Sierra Leone; and in 1473 the Portuguese mariner Lopo Goncalves crossed the equator.

Clark B. Hinckley