Ayame Goriki Quotes & Sayings

The great thing about remote or dead masters is that they can't refuse you as an apprentice. You can learn whatever you want from them. They left their lesson plans in their work. — Austin Kleon

They were catalysts, the fingers that tipped the first domino. They started things that grew into nothing things that were much greater than themselves. A touch, a nudge in the wrong direction, and everyone fell down. — Amy Zhang

The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Aeons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles! — Thomas Carlyle

The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space. — Maxfield Parrish

Here they found themselves year after year- a group of busy, youngish women who had eased their cars impatiently through the archaic streets of Rosedale, who had complained for a week previously about the time lost, the fuss over the children's dresses, and, above all, the boredom, but who were drawn together by a rather implausible allegiance- not so much to Miss Marsalles as to the ceremonies of their childhood, to a more exacting pattern of life which had been breaking apart even then but which survived, and unaccountably still survived, in Miss Marsalles's living room. — Alice Munro

As she left my room I knew I should shut up. But you know when you should shut up because you really should just shut up ... but you keep on and on anyway? Well, I had that. — Louise Rennison

During the Volvo China Open in April 2011, a lot of players fell ill. My son also was taken ill. I contracted a strange viral later, which had symptoms of swollen ankles and wrists and has left me weakened. — Jeev Milkha Singh

The whole world opens when we accept this moment, this very moment. — Deepak Chopra

I debated between law school and divinity. — Cory Booker

Looking back, I realize it was the first time I experienced how cruel life can be. How swiftly a simple act can change in. — Sue Whiting

New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness. A lot of people seem to be similar to the kid in school, which is doing a lot of things with no direct consequence to their joy, or their lives. — Ezra Miller

Do I have an option? when asked by the press if she was "running as a woman." — Patricia Schroeder

If I fall now, I will die. But I don't think I will fall. — Tris Prior

What doesn't kill you is probably just taking a break to freshen up so it can come back and finish you off later. — Alex Bosworth

Banks' beer. There's nothing like it! To Brazil. And to Barbados justice. — Ronald Biggs