Chiaki Mukai Quotes & Sayings

People say, on the raft, you must have hallucinated. Baloney. We were sharper after 47 days than the day we started because our minds were empty of all the war and contamination; we had clean minds to fill with good thoughts. Every day we'd exercise our minds. — Louis Zamperini

I was supposed to be the antithesis of Frank. — Douglas Wilson

I find pleasure in things that are simple. — Stephan Jenkins

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself. — Thomas Jefferson

When I was writing Green Girl,I was reading Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, and she's very dismissive of the young girl. She writes about the girl as being from this space of bad faith and blankness. I'm more interested in a messy space. — Kate Zambreno

Oh, I wish I could make my poor heart just burst. — Chuck Palahniuk

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have. — Elizabeth Bishop

If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my fingers easily fall into. — Fred Frith

Some people revel in taking risks, and some go through life taking no risks at all. — Nicholas Winton

I've travelled around the world, I've lived in Germany, I've lived in the United States, I've visited many countries, I can question why such a good country, such huge potential, why we don't develop in the right way. — Vitali Klitschko