Harukichi Shimoi Quotes & Sayings

The Constitution is a pantheon of values, and a lot of hard cases are hard because the Constitution gives no simple rule of decision for the cases in which one of the values is truly at odds with another. — David Souter

Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality. — Walter Kaufmann

These superhero and mythical stories have, in many cases, replaced Biblical stories as vehicles for communal myths, but they are hardly any better than ancient magical adventures tinged with mythical archetypes and the decidedly unnuanced black-and-white struggle between good and evil. — Gudjon Bergmann

One thing I've often thought is that I never want to tell anybody else what to do. It's hard enough to figure out what I want to do. — Lou Reed

This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit,
Which gives men stomach to digest his words
With better appetite. — William Shakespeare

In America there's a tendency to write the same book over and over because that's what sells. So in a way, my success in America has come at the expense of what I do. I haven't sold out, and I haven't taken the popular road to writing a best-selling book. I've really bucked the system. So it was necessary for me not to go and find the easy fans, the ones who want something digestible and fast with a happy ending that they can read over and over again no matter how many different books it is. I had to find fans who really wanted to think. Worldwide they all have that in common. — Steven Tyler

I might not remember how the sky looked on any given day. I do remember, though, what it was like to be a boy beneath a sky. — Kevin Brockmeier