Gai Daigoji Quotes & Sayings

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Smoking comforts ordinary men, but I'm not an ordinary man. There aren't many like me left. And it's a good thing for the world that there isn't. There'll always be a few of us in America in every generation. Because only a great country like America can produce men like me. I'm not a thinker, I'm a doer. — Charles Willeford

China is one of those vast, continental conglomerates that ... I mean, if they were to start a tourist trade in China, they'd just bus people in from another province, you know what I mean? They're very self-contained. — Damon Albarn

He didn't at all see why the busy bee should be proposed as a model to him; he supposed the Bee liked to make honey, or he wouldn't do it - nobody asked him. It was not necessary for the bee to make such a merit of his tastes. — Charles Dickens

Online dating is just a vehicle to meet more people," she says. "It's not the place to actually date." For — Aziz Ansari

Most people can suppress counterfactual thoughts before they spin too far down a spiral, those who suffer from clinical depression may not be able to. When a student who didn't study much does badly on an exam, he could take responsibility for not having studied more. But the exam could have been easier, or more focused on the material the student knew. — Barry Schwartz

How could a man become a god?" Nell asked. "By living in an extremely pragmatic society," said Constable Moore after some thought — Neal Stephenson

Getting to play a yogic healer was awesome. I love yoga, so I've had a lot of teachers. — Mary Elizabeth Ellis

I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire ... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure. — Camille Claudel