Eriko Miura Quotes & Sayings

A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory ... dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it. — Rumer Godden

When you're a child, you think your family works in a straight line. Then you get older and find out where the curves are. — Brando Skyhorse

Life is not outside of you. You are life. — Jaggi Vasudev

If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence. — Victor Hugo

Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake. — Dorothy Malone

For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew. — Edmund Burke

That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet. — Francis Bacon

One visit with a child can supply us with enough creativity dust to last for a lifetime ... Visit with children like you're the child you ought to be more often. — Eric Maisel

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil. — Michael Bloomberg

Perhaps this is because I'm from the generation that grew up watching 'The Jetsons' on TV, but I really thought we would be much more advanced in the areas of transportation and medicine. — Pat Cadigan