"Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips."

-- Calvin Trillin

#Father Quotes #Taken Quotes #Italian Quotes

“I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.”

Source : E. S. de Beer (ed.) 'The Diary of John Evelyn' (1955) vol. 3, p. 304 (26 November 1661)
“It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.”
“Every one who understands the subject will agree that even the basis on which the scientific explanation of nature rests is intelligible only to those who have learned at least the elements of the differential and integral calculus, as well as analytical geometry.”
“Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.”
“If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling”
“I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilmentâ€¦”
“The question is never ‘Are you in a storm?’ The question is ‘Is Jesus in your boat?’”
“Perhaps the act of writing is necessary when nothing happens.”

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