Eiri Yuki Quotes & Sayings

It just fascinates me, those private mechanisms that we use to make sense of the world - whether they have to do with the five senses or not. I think literature is one of the only kinds of art that truly lets us into that. — Leni Zumas

I miss the game - I miss it a lot. — Joe Montana

You know, a lot of girls go out with me just to further their careers ... damn anthropologists. — Emo Philips

A collection of rare thoughts is nothing less than a cabinet of intellectual gems — William Buell Sprague

My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15. — Karolyn Grimes

fundamentally, people do not prefer independent thought and the accompanying responsibility, but rather orders, subordination, and the accompanying exemption from responsibility. In a popular democracy, the masses who elect unfit rulers are to blame for bad government, but that is not the case in a monarchy. Rather than reflecting upon their own mistakes, the people are free to enjoy speaking ill of leaders who are even more irresponsible than they. — Yoshiki Tanaka

The ship's lines were an elegant array of pure geometry, essentially nothing more than a series of cubes suspended within a curved plane. — Dan Lopez

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent. — Barry McCaffrey

If you're frustrated because you're not getting what you want, stop for a second: Have you actually flat-out asked for it? If you haven't, stop complaining. You can't expect the world to read your mind. You have to put it out there, and sometimes putting it out there is as simple as just saying, Hey, can I have that? — Sophia Amoruso

They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall. — Claudius Claudianus

To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught to depend entirely on their husbands. Meek wives are, in general, foolish mothers; wanting their children to love them best, and take their part, in secret, against the father, who is held up as a scarecrow. — Mary Wollstonecraft

The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this. — Confucius

You're manic-depressive and you're manic-depressive too and you, you're definitely manic-depressive, girl. And you over there in the corner, you're just plain fucking depressive. — Colum McCann

We don't get what we need. We get what we search for. — Jim Rohn