Asakawa Quotes & Sayings

When you hear a word, think about it, no matter how dull it sounds! Because on the second thought, it may sound very clever! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Art must invent new beauty, not play with what has already been made, religion must invent God and never rest. — Iris Murdoch

I remember rehearsing it, and it was the one that we were really excited about and thought would sound the best, and once it was down on tape, it was like, This doesn't actually sound that good. — Meg White

The physical impact of taiko music, along with the sheer visual poetry of a choreographed ensemble presenting its music in perfect synchrony, is so powerful and inviting that taiko is beginning to catch on as Japan's most influential and lasting gift to world music. — Gil Asakawa

I'll deal with you later. In my bed. Gwen met Markus's gaze as he spoke those words telepathically. Heat spread through her like wildfire. Biting her lower lip, she thought back to him, I look forward to it. — Lia Davis

The Vitarags (attachment-free enlightened one's) say, 'Make whatever intents that are suitable to you. If you get sensual intents towards Me, then do those sensual intents and if you have celibate intents towards Me, do celibate intents and if you get religious intents, do religious intents; if you get reverence-intents, do reverence intents and if you want to curse, then curse me. I confront [challenge] no one." A person that doesn't confront goes to Moksha and the person who confronts, resides here [worldly life bondage]. — Dada Bhagwan

In the old days a proposed system would have been given a three-letter acronym and bounced back and forth between different agencies and contractors for fifteen years before being launched into space. — Neal Stephenson

My Japanese isn't much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid. — Gil Asakawa

It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright. — Stephen King

In America, anybody can be president.
That's one of the risks you take. — Adlai E. Stevenson II

Knowlege of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness leads to pride. Knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledge of God leads to despair. Knowledge of Jesus Christ is the middle course, because by it we discover both God and our wretched state. — Blaise Pascal

Asakawa himself didn't much care if the company made money or lost it. All that mattered to him was whether or not the work was engaging. No matter how easy a job was physically, if it didn't involve imagination, it usually ended up exhausting you. — Koji Suzuki

Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system. — Immanuel Wallerstein

The poetry of motion is a phrase much in use, and to enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, having first expanded with a sense of difference from the mass of civilized mankind, who are dreamwrapt and disregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars. After such a nocturnal reconnoitre it is hard to get back to earth, and to believe that the consciousness of such a majestic speeding is derived from a tiny human frame. — Thomas Hardy

Death comes for us all, Brother. You cannot hide from it forever. We will die one day, you and I."
"And that doesn't frighten you?"
Rhy shrugged. "Not nearly as much as the idea of wasting a perfectly good life in fear of it. — V.E Schwab

Princess, the contents of your shoe closet would break the budgets of a lot of third world countries - Jake Malone — Mackenzie Crowne