Fukawa Aiko Quotes & Sayings

Men have in their minds a picture of how the world will be. How they will be in that world. The world may be many different ways for them but there is one world that will never be and that is the world they dream of. — Cormac McCarthy

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things. — Constantin Brancusi

An idea for a story can be anything. The sky is not the limit, the limit is beyond it. — Chrys Fey

The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism of yesterday and the materialism of today, were all emanations of divine thought, doing their appointed work. It was the duty of the church to deal with them all, not as though they existed through a power hostile to the deity, but as instruments of the deity to work out his unrevealed ends. — Henry Adams

When charity requires it we must freely and mildly communicate to our neighbor not only what is his instruction, but also what is profitable for his consolation. — Saint Francis De Sales

That girl had the subtlety of a Spencer's Gifts shop. — Rainbow Rowell

Liberals said the war was a failure because we hadn't captured Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Then we killed al-Zarqawi and a half-dozen of his aides in an air raid. Then they said the war was a failure because ... you get the picture. — Ann Coulter

Broadhampton sat like a broken egg at the bottom of a glass bowl. — Maddie Grigg

A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off. — Peter Straub

I tend not to worry about things I can't do anything about. It's not in my nature to spend too much time thinking. — Bo Derek

I realize what you can do when you scare the population and how media contributes to that. — Phil Donahue

This was probably my biggest mistake: to think that the truth could be captured externally and simply with one's eyes, to imagine a truth exists which can be grasped at once and thereafter remain still and at peace, just like a statue, a truth which contracts and expands depending on the temperature, a truth which eventually erodes, not only modifying the surrounding space but subtly altering thhe composition of the ground on which it stands, shedding minute particles of marble, just as we shed hairs, nail clippings, saliva and the words we speak. — Jose Saramago

Dare to be the adults we want our children to be. — Brene Brown