Hirokazu Sawamura Quotes & Sayings

Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. — Eric Hobsbawm

This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I had a great conceit to think that if all else failed I could always go to Hollywood. So when all else did fail I really went to Hollywood. And then I found out how wrong I was. — David Niven

Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that all nations would have understood, the whole earth had known it in twenty-four hours, and all nations would have believed it; whereas, though it is now almost two thousand years since, as they tell us, Christ came upon earth, not a twentieth part of the people of the earth know anything of it, and among those who do, the wiser part do not believe it. — Thomas Paine

I'm no good at the one-liner thing. It's just not me. — Jamie Bell

To go against the grain is the secret of bravery. — Dejan Stojanovic

We don't design by calculator or by demographics or anything like that. We really are a group of creative, sensitive people. We have our charmed little world where we get to make things. We're really lucky. — Marc Jacobs

In football, you're dealing with grown men. In gymnastics, you're dealing with prepubescent teenage girls. There's a huge difference. At that age, you're not confident enough to have a voice. — Dominique Moceanu

You are what you choose to identify with. You have the choice. A mouse raised by pigeons. — Lil B

Great God.
Glorious God.
Gracious God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Check out that one at the end. He's taken the form of a footstool. Weird ... but somehow I like his style."
"That is a footstool. — Jonathan Stroud

I think your emotion changes from person to person. As you get older, a lot of people become cynical because of the experiences they have had and haven't been able to let go of, whether they've been cheated on or whether it hasn't worked out. It's so easy to turn around right now and say, "Just let it go." — Alex Pettyfer