Fujiya Japanese Quotes & Sayings

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now. — Bill Gates

I felt sick with hatred then for my own people. If you had asked me why I hated them, I might have said that I hated them for being so loud and for being so drunk. But now I believe I hated them for suddenly being my people, not just other people. In the United States, it is very easy for me to forget that the people around me are my people. It is easy, with all our divisions, to think of myself as an outsider in my own country. I have been taught, and I have learned well, I realize now, to think of myself as distinctly different from other white folks - more educated, more articulate, less crude. But in Mexico these distinctions became as meaningless to me as they should have always been. — Eula Biss

If You Should Go
Love, leave me like the light,
The gently passing day;
We would not know, but for the night,
When it has slipped away.
Go quietly; a dream,
When done, should leave no trace
That it has lived, except a gleam
Across the dreamer's face. — Countee Cullen

The book. The book ... think about a book. What a perfect invention. The best and most important ever. — Jann Arden

It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires. — Marquis De Sade

For weeks I read round the clock. I entered the warp of the world of the imagination. Chapter numbers became the enumerations by which I measured hours. — Sam Wazan

Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors — Nelson Mandela

My dad told me that when I was born my cheeks were so fat the doctors didn't know which end to spank. — Sean Covey

Scripture has at its core such a powerful mythology that even the residue of that mythology is still sufficient to serve as an exacting control mechanism for some people. It provides, first of all, a theory about the meaning of life and therefore rules on how one is to conduct oneself. — Neil Postman

Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is. — Rand Paul

Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting. — Aimee Mann

Ten years after the Boston Tea Party, tea was still far more popular than coffee, which only became the more popular drink in the mid-nineteenth century. Coffee's popularity grew after the duty on imports was abolished in 1832, making it more affordable. The duty was briefly reintroduced during the Civil War but was abolished again in 1872. — Tom Standage

When God does a miracle somehow you have to respond. When God does things for you - maybe we don't deserve them and we can never really repay God but God really wants us to respond to them. He doesn't want us to stay the same. So, for us to respond to what God has done in our lives is probably the same way he would want anyone to do - "Just tell people what I've done for you and what you've seen and heard." That's what we're doing. — Todd Burpo

Spineless politics do not change the mind of a tyrant. — Friedrich Kellner