Chisako Wakatake Quotes & Sayings

Fashion is transient, trends come and go. I believe in style, not fashion. — Ralph Lauren

God promises to make the vale of trouble a door of hope — Jill Briscoe

I don't like prolonged, highly expensive commissions, especially if they are chaired by judges. We seem to have overwhelming faith in judges. — David Blunkett

In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry ... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently exercised on the forms and demonstrations of geometry, on the theories and calculations of arithmetic ... In a word, the theory of proportions is for industrial teaching, what algebra is for the most elevated mathematical teaching. — Jean-Victor Poncelet

Popery is the gospel transubstantiated into the flesh and blood of Paganism, under a few of the accidents of Christianity. — James Aitken Wylie

What use is a god with boundless mercy, sir? You mock me as a pagan, yet the gods of my ancestors pronounce clearly their ways and punish severely when we break their laws. Your Christian god of mercy gives men licence to pursue their greed, their lust for land and blood, knowing a few prayers and a little penance will bring forgiveness and blessing. — Kazuo Ishiguro

They are hare-brain'd slaves. — William Shakespeare

It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more. — Horace Mann

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost. — Joyce Carol Oates

Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody. — Richard Petty

I had to make squirrel noises as Bubbles and without realizing it, I was making the face and putting my fingers up to my face to look like a squirrel and everyone made fun of me for the rest of the day. — Tara Strong

What, no balloons?' Billi asked drily.
'You want balloons, join the circus. — Sarwat Chadda

Only one wish I have, and that is to die a happy man. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett