Genbei Onikoroshi Quotes & Sayings

Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything. — Meg Rosoff

And this is how the ending starts. — L.J.Smith

You are not a samurai, Nate. You're a medically-savvy immortal with Star Wars bed sheets. — Chelsea Fine

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself. — Virginia Woolf

The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Make no mistake. The greatest destroyer of ecology. The greatest source of waste, depletion and pollution. The greatest purveyor of violence, war, crime, poverty, animal abuse and inhumanity. The greatest generator of personal and social neurosis, mental disorders, depression, anxiety. Not to mention the greatest source of social paralysis, stopping us from moving into new methodologies for personal health, global sustainability and progress on this planet, is not some corrupt government or legislation.
Not some rogue corporation or banking cartel.
Not some flaw of human nature and not some secret cabal that controls the world.
It is the socioeconomic system itself at its very foundation. — Peter Joseph

So many great people are dead, and so many assholes I know are still alive. Karma's bullshit. I wish it was true, but it ain't. — John Waters

Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation of what Government denominated the law of God. To prevent a similar train of evils in this country, the Constitution has wisely withheld from our Government the power of defining the divine law. — Richard Mentor Johnson

I got time to myself. I think about things."
"Yes. Clearly you do. Interesting things."
"I spose everybody thinks about 'em."
He laughed. "Right. But that's interesting, too. — Marilynne Robinson

It's hard to know exactly how many empty houses there are...the census placed the figure, in the United States, in 2000, at about 10.5 million housing units (including apartments, counting duplexes as two, and so forth). For comparison: less than a quarter million people lived in homeless shelters in 2000. — Shay Salomon