Pellegrini Meats Quotes

#1. And then suddenly she was on her feet, her heart knocking in her chest, a sudden familiar but long-forgotten terror triggered- but by what?

Kate Atkinson

#2. We are now being coerced to accept and believe that a new political-cum-religious doctrine has arisen, namely that 'there is but one political god, George Bush, and Tony Blair is his prophet

Robert Mugabe

#3. Credit, that rare bird of security and peace, rested with none, but stood with upraised wings, ready to fly off at the first rumor of suspicion.

Mark Twain

#4. While strength is the natural quality of an individual seen in isolation, power springs up between men when they act together and vanishes the moment they disperse.

Hannah Arendt

#5. While to a certain extent Milton is right-the mind is its own place and in itself can make a Heaven of Hall and so forth-it is nonetheless clear that Plano was modeled less on Paradise than that other, more dolorous city.

Donna Tartt

#6. In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#7. As they'd agreed the night before on their cold balcony, scripting out this dialog, there would be three large lies in this conversation. This was the first.

Chris Pavone

#8. If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#9. His memory is perfectly clear

and serves no good, no purpose
at all. He has seen things before

(the fly in the bottle,
the indeterminate will).

Santa Muerte, Saint Death,
we pray to you to swallow our breath.

Michael Palmer

#10. In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

Bob Gunton