Quarterdeck Restaurant Quotes

#1. Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

Samuel Alexander

#2. She can't see me staring at her cause I'm always wearing shades.

Ray Davies

#3. Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Katharine Hepburn

#4. Dellarobia watched the void of this man where once there had been wonder, and she despaired of her future. In such a short time he had relieved her of a lifetime of illusions, and already she missed them.

Barbara Kingsolver

#5. Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.

Hanna Rosin

#6. To love, you have to admit your lack, and recognise that you need the other, that you miss him or her.

Jacques-Alain Miller

#7. There'd been months when hunger seemed to be the driving force in his life.

Kelley Armstrong

#8. It is only when we see the worst that Man can offer, that we begin to see the best that Man still holds. If they are blinded by greed, then it's time to pick up our virtual stones so we can start knocking sense into 'em...

Faith Brashear

#9. Nature make us more kind, more humane, more beautiful, and more natural.

Debasish Mridha

#10. It's fun to peek into other people's worlds and see how they go about doing things.

Norah Jones

#11. Verse is everywhere in language where there is rhythm, everywhere, except in notices and on page four of the papers. In the genre called prose, there are verses [ ... ] of all rhythms. But in truth there is no prose: there is the alphabet, and then verses more or less tight, more or less diffuse.

Stephane Mallarme

#12. Concentrated power is bad"

"(name of chapter)

William J. Federer

#13. It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

Chinua Achebe

#14. The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like a long-term marriage.

Will Self

#15. I'll find a way back to you. No matter what. I promise.

Alexandra Monir