Hiroo Takayama Quotes & Sayings

The more you know about English, the less you're likely to think there are unbreakable "rules" for a lot of things. — Bill Walsh

Terror melting into wonder, then slipping into peace. — Gregory J. Boyle

Her eyes were a rich dark brown that were so deep, they reminded me of my sleepless nights, awake, staring into complete darkness. I felt compelled to look deeper, searching for something inside her, but her soul was covered and her eyes would not show me. — Cristina Martin

Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good. — C.S. Lewis

You're not user-friendly. You're too needy. You have no social currency. You're a freak. Without a normative side, you can't get in. That's it. Sorry. — Sarah Schulman

Freud wrote that love involves the undervaluation of reality and the overvaluation of the desired object. While the correct valuation of a person is an odd, if not impossible idea, we might say Freud meant something like this: for various reasons, many of them masochistic, we become involved with others who cannot possibly give what we ask for; we can wait as long as we wish, but they do not have it, and one day, if we bear to abandon our fantasy and see clearly, we might face reality straight on. We will then look elsewhere for fulfillment, to a place where our needs can, in fact, be satisfied. — Hanif Kureishi

I've masturbated like 5 times in the last 24 hours ... it hurts ... it's going to fall off. — Tom DeLonge

Weyrother evidently felt himself to be at the head of a movement that had already become unrestrainable. He was like a horse running downhill harnessed to a heavy cart. Whether he was pulling it or being pushed by it he did not know, but rushed along at headlong speed with no time to consider what this movement might lead to. — Leo Tolstoy

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you. — Soren Kierkegaard

Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a superabundance of crap. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt