Bagues Cartier Quotes & Sayings

Why has pachinko swept Japan? It can hardly be the excitement of gambling, since the risks and rewards are so small. During the hours spent in front of a pachinko machine, there is an almost total lack of stimulation other than the occasional rush of ball bearings. There is no thought, no movement; you have no control over the flow of balls, apart from holding a little lever which shoots them up to the top of the machine; you sit there enveloped in a cloud of heavy cigarette smoke, semi-dazed by the racket of millions of ball bearings falling through machines around you. Pachinko verges on sensory deprivation. It is the ultimate mental numbing, the final victory of the educational system. - Lost Japan, Eng. vers., 1996 — Alex Kerr

Cock his head this way and that. Called him Cricket, on — Kate DiCamillo

I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself. — Alison Bechdel

There are horizons through the brickwork, you wait and see. — Jessie Burton

Steve turned to us again, looking so dang enthusastic that I wondered how much coffee he'd had this morning. "So, you kids want to be big stars, eh?"
God, no!" I said spewing crumbs. "No way!"
Oddly, this seemed to throw a petite wrench into the convo. — James Patterson

I had my years of struggling. Some of my shows failed miserably, and I was upset by it and it dented my confidence. But I never stopped. I kept going for it. — Regis Philbin

I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though. — Elton John

If you stop searching, you stop living, because then you're dwelling in the past. If you're not reaching forward to any growth or future, you might as well be dead. — Wynn Bullock

But then comes a time when forgetting isn't possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount of dreaming, not then and maybe not ever, can change how naked and unimportant we become in our own eyes. — Stig Dagerman

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash. — Fred Woodworth

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party. — James F. Cooper

Note to self: never cockblock a sex demon. — Alexis Hall

Getting to the playoffs is more important than winning an award. — Corey Perry