Bikkuriman Quotes & Sayings

You don't know who Nicolas Cage is?" North sounds incredulous. "You need to see National Treasure immediately. I mean, it's terrible, but since you're essentially living it, you ought to at least see it. — Lauren Miller

Everybody should eavesdrop once in a while. There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head. — Thornton Wilder

When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a late starter; I started at age 17 and at age 51 I'm still learning. — Bruce Hornsby

I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself most clearly in Spinoza ... I have not found a better expression than 'religious' for the trust in the rational nature of reality that is, at least to a certain extent, accessible to human reason. — Albert Einstein

In fact the system of collective contribution, levy of a tenth, and redistribution to the participants, is the schema of the sacrificial rite (one provides the victim; the god, the temple, the priests levy a tenth, then redistribution takes place: redistribution that imparts a new strength and power to those who benefit from it, deriving from the sacrifice itself).

The game - sacrifice, division, levy, redistribution - is a religious form of individual and group invigoration which has been transposed into a social practice involving the resolution of a class conflict. — Michel Foucault

the standard of culture is falling, — Anton Chekhov

Don't focus on the mountain; focus instead on the mountain mover! HS/el — Evinda Lepins

You're only as good as your next idea. And if you can't agree on that, then it's time to walk. — John Hegarty

In Spain people have lunch and dinner a lot later - when I return to England I'll have to eat alone at midnight. — David Beckham

Reason doesn't always stand up to pain and come out the victor. — Amy A. Bartol

This misery of a gig called life is just a dream from which we all eventually awaken, he said. Nobody gets left behind. Even the most horrible dreams end. — Jeremy Massey

If you don't take money, they can't tell you what to do. — Bill Cunningham

They say courage isn't a lack of fear. It is doing what has to be done, despite your fear." Nicole — Ruth Cardello

When you can't find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example. — Roxane Gay

She loved her daughter, the blessing of a good book, a glass of wine after the day's wave of vanity had passed. — Tim Farrington