Fuminori Quotes & Sayings

Deep down, people who deliberately distribute other people's music and stuff feel contempt for professionals. And it's not just culture - these days lots of people are contemptuous of everything. Without realizing it, they're searching for things to despise. — Fuminori Nakamura

Even when the moon shrinks and disappears, it shows itself again gradually. When ancient people saw that eternal cycle of death and recovery, they prayed to the moon for their own rebirth. Rebirth. Will I be reborn? ... If I were reborn, what would I become? — Fuminori Nakamura

When people believe they have a good cause, the violence within them bursts forth unrestrained, as if their good angel has given permission for it to escape. — Fuminori Nakamura

Ain't the best prayin' jest bein' with God and talkin' a while, like He's a good friend, stead a-like he runs a store and you've come in a-hopin' to git a bargain? — Olive Ann Burns

You're a pickpocket right? That's cool. But you don't do it for the money, do you?"
"Maybe the end." I said abruptly.
"The end?"
"What will happen to me in the end. What happens to people who live the way I do? That's what I'd like to know. — Fuminori Nakamura

The patient is the one with the disease — Samuel Shem

Don't you think people make their own choices in life?'

'They do, but in many cases their choices are limited--unless they break the rules. — Fuminori Nakamura

On this important anniversary, we must remember that while we have come a long way in eliminating barriers, critical work remains to ensure all Americans can live up to their full potential. — Jim Ramstad

Refuse to let go of your imagination. It is what inspires us to make our dreams, into reality. — K.D. Delgado

The cover was pebbled black leather, the pages onionskin, and he opened it carefully. It was his first Bible, the one his mother had given him, the one that had taken its time showing him what he was supposed to do with his life, his size, that voice of his. It was the one used for his ordination, and when he had buried his mother on a autumn hillside in Tennesee five years ago. King James. He didn't care about the scholars or the accuracy or the bringing of his church into whatever century they claimed it was these days; he cared about the poetry, and about the comfort it brought to those who needed to hear it. — Charles L. Grant

Happiness is a fortress. — Fuminori Nakamura

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well. — Victoria Justice

You could say that everything had become weirdly distorted because I'd broken the rules so many times. — Fuminori Nakamura

We're attacking all accepted values. Authority, class differences, shared perceptions. We don't care what happens to our social structure -- revolutions are for suckers. Our target is people's collective consciousness. It's like throwing a cream pie in their face. — Fuminori Nakamura

Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better. — David Baldacci

That Yes, I know what you mean-that is the technical definition of Best Friend Forever. — J.J. Johnson

A wallet shows a person's personality and lifestyle. Just like a cell phone, it is at the center, forming the nucleus of the owner's secrets, everything he carries on him. — Fuminori Nakamura

The man at the end of the bar was looking at me. ... Should I get drunk and sleep with him now? But I could see that I would regret that so much I would want to die after. I didn't want to get involved with anyone, and I didn't want to bear being alone with the warmth left by someone long gone. — Fuminori Nakamura

0Cross-gender behaviour is seen as less acceptable in boys than it is in girls: unlike the term 'tomboy' there is nothing positive implied by its male counterpart, the 'sissy'. — Cordelia Fine

In this life, the proper way of living is to make use of both joy and suffering. They are both merely stimuli that the world presents to us. So by blending them skillfully within you, you can use them in a completely different way. If you want to be steeped in evil, you mustn't forget good. — Fuminori Nakamura

I can't take his genius any more. — Rita Hayworth

We're outsiders, and so when we walk through the city, we're there and not there at the same time, participating and observing simultaneously. — Paul Auster

Fate is like the relationship between the strong and the weak, don't you think? Look at religion, for example. The Israelites, who worshipped Jehovah - why were they afraid of him? Because their god was powerful, that's why. Everyone who believes in gods fears them to some extent. — Fuminori Nakamura

Life is a mystery. But listen. Why did I turn up in your life in the first place? Do you believe in fate? Was your fate controlled by me, or was being controlled by me your fate? But in the end, aren't they just two sides of the same coin? — Fuminori Nakamura

Our job involves looking at things that people usually can't see. — Fuminori Nakamura

THE FUZZY GREEN light gradually resolved itself into trees, and a narrow street of damp terra-cotta bricks stretched lazily into the distance. — Fuminori Nakamura

But obviously if there was no concept of ownership there'd be no concept of stealing, would there? As long as there's one starving child in the world, all property is theft. — Fuminori Nakamura

Why does the subconscious mind make people steal? Why does it have to be stealing? Don't you think it's something deep-rooted in our nature? — Fuminori Nakamura

An optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is one who thinks otherwise. — Milan Kundera

I thought about how this banknote had witnessed a moment of each one of those people's lives. Maybe it had been at the scene of a murder, then passed from the murderer to a shopkeeper somewhere, then to a good person somewhere else. — Fuminori Nakamura

If there is only nothingness after death, what's the point of this world? — Fuminori Nakamura

I suppose you could present my life as a happy tale if you ended it in the right place. — Fuminori Nakamura

When human consciousness stops fooling itself and looks at the situation straight on, it can't cope. — Fuminori Nakamura

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president. — Madeleine Albright

I kept staring at the moon. I'm not sure if its light was good or evil. I thought it might not be either. The moon just shines with the light of chaos. Mysteriously. Brightly. That must not be either good or evil. Just as the rules of this world are not all good. — Fuminori Nakamura

I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special. — Dolly Parton

When humans' nerves detect big and small stimuli at the same time, they ignore the smaller one. — Fuminori Nakamura