Barashi Tei Quotes & Sayings

An avalanche is just a snowflake that got pissed off. — Andi James Chamberlain

I find it's more fun to write about something that you don't know completely and that you will discover on route. A dear friend of mine ... once said: 'The only time I know anything is when it comes to me at the point of my pen.' So I think that if you start to write about things that you know half well, that you're fascinated by, that you sense you have an appreciation of that others might not have, but you do have to acquire the knowledge as you go, you discover a great many things at the point of a pen. And it keeps the writing alive in itself in a way.
(in an interview with Martin Amis, 1991, see YouTube) — Norman Mailer

[Tea-masters] have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humility. In fact, through their teachings tea has entered the life of the people. — Okakura Kakuzo

Looking back now I realise that the worst things that happened to me were the best things in disguise - I just didn't know how to read the signs. — Jan Hellriegel

Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened. — Marshall McLuhan

In an economy, an act, a habit, an institution, or a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause - it is seen. The others unfold in succession - they are not seen: ... Now this difference is enormous, for it is often true that when the immediate consequence is favorable, the ultimate consequences are fatal, and the converse. — Frederic Bastiat

I'm not trying to stump anybody ... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in. — Buddy Holly

We each joked to close friends that the secret to saving a relationship is for one person to become terminally ill. Conversely, we knew that one trick to managing a terminal illness is to be deeply in love - to be vulnerable, kind, generous, grateful. — Paul Kalanithi

Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace. — Ludwig Von Mises

Acknowledging our ignorance can give us the strength to conquer and extend our limit. — Jan Jansen

I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can — Linda Ellerbee

I'm a walking, talking enigma. — Larry David

A career is a career, but you're a mother until you die. — Shirley Eaton

They were married by a lesbian justice of the peace while their friends played a guitar-feedback-heavy version of the "Wedding March." The bride wore a white-fringed flapper dress and black spiked boots. The groom wore leather. — Gayle Forman