Akaashi Quotes & Sayings

The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. — Juvenal

I refused to have bookshelves, horrified that I'd feel compelled to organise the books in some regimented system - Dewey or alphabetical or worse - and so the books lived in stacks, some as tall as me, in the most subjective order I could invent.
Thus Nabokov lived between Gogol and Hemingway, cradled between the Old World and the New; Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser and Thomas Hardy were stacked together not for their chronological proximity but because they all reminded me in some way of dryness (though in Dreiser's case I think I was focused mainly on his name): George Eliot and Jane Austen shared a stack with Thackeray because all I had of his was Vanity Fair, and I thought that Becky Sharp would do best in the presence of ladies (and deep down I worried that if I put her next to David Copperfield, she might seduce him). — Rebecca Makkai

I don't know much about technology anymore. — John McAfee

You are person with a goal — Sunday Adelaja

The telescope ... is a conduit to the cosmos. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain. — Chiaki Kuriyama

Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway. — Uday Kotak

...people live longer when they decide to become passionately involved in something beyond themselves. — Richard Foth

In my experience, folk find it nigh on impossible to call a thing what it is. It — Catherynne M Valente

Nothing capable of sustaining an invasion force of any size. But in all this, Aqaba, lying at the very southern end of the — Scott Anderson

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less. — Clint Eastwood

If you're constantly moving, you can get in a monotony that's just as equally boring as sitting still for a long period of time. — Amy Seimetz

Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don't demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference. — Russell M. Nelson

Throwing things horrified me. I suffered extreme, paralyzing anxiety when it came to anything remotely athletic. I wouldn't even run to catch the school bus because I knew I'd trip and then get teased for a year. — Augusten Burroughs

Every day. When you have something good, Willow, don't ever let it go. Not for anything, not for anyone, and certainly not for fear. Love will always overpower fear. But if you succumb to fear instead of following your heart, you will regret it. Make sure you never do that. Make sure you always follow your heart. No matter the cost. — Abby Wilder