Hisao Shinagawa Quotes & Sayings

Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors,
I want burning, burning, burning. — Rumi

In North America, what happens often is that they put race before nationhood. Everyone here is Hispanic-American, Chinese-American, African-American. But really, we're just North Americans of all these different descents. The only time I notice North Americans becoming national is when a war happens or a crisis happens. — Mark Bradford

No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And, oh yes, if you wanted, he would give you a haircut and pull your tooth while he was at it. — Abraham Verghese

I do what I do when I have to do it. — Stephen Pegg

Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy. — George Carlin

There is no sun. — Alfred Bester

Man's true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities. — Erik Erikson

We remember those who make us feel welcome, — Larry Perkinson

I am the kind of person that if something scares me then I feel like have to do it. That's something I have to conquer. I need to break that fear and go to it. — Barb Honchak

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. — Samuel Johnson