Akaike Pronounce Quotes & Sayings

Music was fundamental in my family. Sang at bars, all the way to church on Sunday. Music in school, played guitar pulls at the house, go to other people's houses and break out the guitars, it was fun. It was always there, I've just been a part of it. — Jamey Johnson

The only reason men fail is because of broken focus — Mike Murdock

How was Gengo to know, Saigyo reflected, that this unheroic existence imposed even greater torment than the icy lashings of the Nachi Falls in its thousand-foot leap? How was Gengo to realize that Saigyo had not slept a single night undisturbed since he had fled his home for the Eastern Hills, that his sleep was haunted by the cries of his beloved daughter from whom he had torn himself.
Who knew that during the day, when he went about his tasks of drawing water and chopping wood as he composed verses, the sighting of the wind in the treetops of the valleys below and the pines surrounding the temple sounded to him like the mourning of his young wife, and so troubled his nights that sleep no longer visited him? Never again would Saigyo find peace. He had wrenched asunder the living boughs of the tree that was his life. Remorse and compassion for his loved ones would dog him to the end of his days. — Eiji Yoshikawa

I am not sure I trust you."
"You can trust me with your life, My King."
"But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back. — Megan Whalen Turner

Genuine faith doesn't seek an easy-out but stands firm in the face of invasion by enemy forces. — Lydia Chorpening

I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see. — Antoine Fuqua

Women well understood how to restrict birth through timing of sexual intercourse, herbs and abortifacients. I suspect the focus on men's control of women as the means of reproduction came later, in the last five percent or so of human history, with the idea of children as property and labor. One needed to have as many as possible, never mind about women's health or mobility or brainpower. Women's freedom was restricted in order to make sure of the paternity and ownership of children. — Gloria Steinem

People are messy, unpredictable things. — Mary Roach

Fame can take a toll on your personal life. Half of us were in short-lived marriages or not married at all. When you are doing something you love so much that you once did for free, and then someone pays you to do it, it's like a blessing. But you have to be prepared for it. — Big Bank Hank

Her arm. Her face sagged. Her speech slurred. Although — Atul Gawande

Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire, — Hugo Chavez

He was a hearty, gregarious man. He was rich, but newly rich, and so very sincere about it. He lacked the natural languidity that came with old money, the kind that made others feel like they were only walking through dreams of the wealthy, barely there at all. People couldn't help but like George. His laugh was like a barrel of whiskey. His cheeks were almost as red as his hair. Just looking at him, you could see that his capacity to love was as wide as the world. — Sarah Addison Allen

Old woods and deep. At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned and these were like them. — Cormac McCarthy

I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre. — Ben Lerner

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person. — Brian Tracy