Geisha A Life Mineko Iwasaki Quotes & Sayings

The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as we, not our mother, initiate parting, and as long as our mother remains reliably there, it seems possible to risk, and even to revel in, standing alone. — Judith Viorst

She said I'd poison his mind and make him a fascist.
I said she'd poison his body and make him an addict. — Julian Fellowes

He was not sure that there were any great moments. Things were not the same and now life only came in flashes. He had flashes of the old greatness with his bulls, but they were not of value because he had discounted them in advance when he had picked the bulls out for their safety, getting out of a motor and leaning on a fence, looking over at the herd on the ranch of his friend the bull-breeder. So he had two small, manageable bulls without much horns, and when he felt the greatness again coming, just a little of it through the pain that was always with him, it had been discounted and sold in advance, and it did not give him a good feeling. It was the greatness, but it did not make bull-fighting wonderful to him any more. — Ernest Hemingway,

I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain. — Chiaki Kuriyama

Who has not sat, afraid, before his heart's curtain? — Rainer Maria Rilke

Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense of them. When I was a child, I thought about everything in the universe. — T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

When you create a movie, you create something in your image. — Jean-Jacques Annaud

Short-term expediency always fails in the long term. — Frank Herbert

I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Many online journals get the most hits of the day during the lunch hour. — Jami Attenberg

I've been doing it since I was prepubescent when I loved to scratch records and play good music. As it happens, you know I sort of fell into the mix. I really feel like I played a role in bringing dance music to America years ago. — A-Trak

Fear not, for I am with you. Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. — Anonymous

I guess I should have said that you're a tragic loss because your brains were yours and yours alone. You were the one who could pull the sword out of the stone. And you gave it all up. — Elizabeth Knox

It was easy to argue with Quagliagliarello, if you had patience, and if you could pronounce his name. — Mark Helprin

It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime. — Rudy Giuliani