Asakusa Tokyo Quotes & Sayings

One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all. — Zac Efron

Simple exchanges can break down walls between us, for when people come together and speak to one another and share a common experience, then their common humanity is revealed. We are reminded that we're joined together by our pursuit of a life that's productive and purposeful, and when that happens mistrust begins to fade and our smaller differences no longer overshadow the things that we share. And that's where progress begins. — Barack Obama

A stone that looks satisfied with its position reflects the sense of ease the waller felt when placing it there. — Dan Snow

Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat. — Nancy Gibbs

There was a very nice boy once who said, "Don't worry, Laura. I know you're really very sweet and gentle underneath." And another with, "You're strong, like an earth mother." And a third, "You're so beautiful when you're angry." My guts on the floor, you're so beautiful when you're angry. I want to be recognized. — Joanna Russ

Selena had been singing along, absently, gazing into nowhere. She looked at us like she was trying to work out who we were, before she got up — Tana French

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process. — Ellar Coltrane

He was a pitiful thing. He had always been a pitiful thing. Why had she never seen that before? There was a hollow place inside her where her fear had been. — George R R Martin

I kind of came to the conclusion after I did finally get married that love and relationships are just a series of horrific losses with hopefully one win. — Justin Halpern

Thus we seem to be on the verge of an expansion of welfare economics into something like a social science of ethics and politics: what was intended to be a mere porch to ethics is either the whole house or nothing at all. In so laying down its life welfare economics may be able to contribute some of its insights and analytical methods to a much broader evaluative analysis of the whole social process. — Kenneth E. Boulding

Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing. — Will Self

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck. — Elvis Presley

At times, I think, 'What would I rather be doing than music?' That's what you have to ask yourself, if you feel like you need to be somewhere else ... But there's nothing else I want to do more than music. That's why I stay in the booth. — Nayvadius Cash

This fuzzification of faith has developed in parallel to increasing ignorance of biblical teaching and growing skepticism as to whether that teaching as it stands may properly be called the Word of God. Is there a connection? Yes. When the church ceases to treat the Bible as a final standard of spiritual truth and wisdom, it is going to wobble between maintaining its tradition in a changing world and adapting to that world, and as the wobbles go on, uncertainty as to what is the real substance of faith and the proper way of embracing it and living it out will inevitably increase. — J.I. Packer