Ayumu Aikawa Quotes & Sayings

You are the winged wolf, but you will never fly ... unless you open your eye. - Jojen — George R R Martin

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films. — Walter Salles

For a woman, forty is torture, the end. — Grace Kelly

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless. — Peter Doig

Eroticism is the brink of the abyss. I'm leaning out over deranged horror (at this point my eyes roll back in my head). The abyss is the foundation of the possible. We're brought to the edge of the same abyss by uncontrolled laughter or ecstasy. From this comes a "questioning" of everything possible. This is the stage of rupture, of letting go of things, of looking forward to death. — Georges Bataille

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories. Literacy is a platform for democratization, and a vehicle for the promotion of cultural and national identity. Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition. For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right ... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential. — Kofi Annan

Nature has gone to great lengths to hide our subconscious from ourselves. Why? — Robert Wright

Pride is bad, stress is good. I don't want to feel confident. I want to feel rage. Endless, all consuming rage. — Andre Agassi

Jesus, that ear. He should donate it to The Smithsonian. Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a hundred tracks today. — Bob Dylan

Knowledge is acquired by diligent study. But wisdom is given by the revere of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Usually, there's a story I've told that leads up to why I'm singing the song. The whole concept of the show was about being authentic and connecting with these songs. The best way to do that was in a room with an audience and for people to listen to that. — Alan Cumming

Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors. — Siri Hustvedt

No wonder women have achieved a more equal footing with men in areas they never fought for
ulcers, hypertension, and heart attacks. We're racing around trying to be all things to all people, burdened by a brutal mix of ambition, anxiety, and guilt. — Kathie Lee Gifford

I get recognized often, but they don't treat me like a god. It would be nice if they did, I think. — Mark Pellegrino

It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols. — Meg Ryan