Chizuo Matsumoto Quotes & Sayings

The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts. — Rick Atkinson

Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have the explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are they always metaphors; they do not say this is that, they say this is. — Robert Hass

Make me laugh. Make me cry. Tell me my place in the world. Lift me out of my skin and place me in another. Show me places I have never visited and carry me to the ends of time and space. Give my demons names and help me to confront them. Demonstrate for me possibilities I've never thought of and present me with heroes who will give me courage and hope. Ease my sorrows and increase my joy. Teach me compassion. Entertain and enchant and enlighten me.
Tell me a story. — Dennis O'Neil

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else. — John Cage

As anyone who's ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed. — Tahir Shah

The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see. — Nelson Mandela

staff of U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet and submitted his narrative in 2001. With the ongoing war in Iraq, I felt it appropriate that a broader audience have access to Commander Winkler's work. — David F. Winkler

...and when is enough proof enough? — Jonathan Safran Foer

They had offered him comfort and shelter, even when he was afraid of taking them, and in accepting he had learned something new. It was as much of a gift to receive as it was to give, requiring as it did both courage and humility. — Rachel Joyce

Hayabusa ... it's one of the fastest production motorcycles in the world. Believe me when I say you'll never ride on another motorcycle after you feel the power this baby has. It is unlike anything you'll ever feel between your legs. — Nicole Gulla

Remember: if you can see the Empire State Building,
The Empire State Building can see you. — Robert Polito

The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always that of oppressing and exploiting the masses, of defending the oppressors and the exploiters: and it's principal, characteristic and indispensable instruments are the police agent and the tax-collector, the soldier and the gaoler - to whom must be invariably added the trader in lies, be he priest of schoolmaster, remunerated or protected by the government to enslave minds and make them docilely accept the yoke. — Errico Malatesta

People pursue things. As soon as they have them they run away from them. — Neil Gaiman

It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth. — Rusty Schweickart

Years ago, in my earliest and pastiest days as a would-be writer, I once read a new story aloud to S. and Boo Boo. When I was finished, Boo Boo said flatly (but looking over at Seymour) that the story was "too clever." S. shook his head, beaming away at me, and said cleverness was my permanent affliction, my wooden leg, and that it was in the worst possible taste to draw the group's attention to it. As one limping man to another, old Zooey, let's be courteous and kind to each other. — J.D. Salinger