Hitaishi Bedi Quotes & Sayings

Academics always feel that they deserve more. (Roberto Bolano)

Reading and enjoying fine literature is a highly cultivated and refined activity, whereas writing it is everything but so.
(xxx) — Kim Leine

But her feeling towards the vulgar rich was a sort of religious hatred: they had probably made all their money out of high prices for everything that was not paid in kind at the Rectory: such people were no part of God's plan in making the world; and their accent was an affliction to the ears. A town where such monsters abounded was hardly more than a sort of low comedy, which could not be taken account of in a well-bred scheme of the universe. — George Eliot

Claude Monet was the incomparable painter of bright daylight...Monet was the painter of light. — Christoph Heinrich

Once I got home, I sulked for a while. All my brilliant plans foiled by thermodynamics. Damn you, Entropy! — Andy Weir

Remember: you must participate in the creative world you want to become part of. — John Waters

I remember Connie and me standing there at the hospital, looking at each other, not touching, not crying, just completely and utterly shocked. Our mother was too busy to die. — Liane Moriarty

CHRISTMAS DAY Jesus came! - and came for me. Simple words! and yet expressing Depths of holy mystery, Depths of wondrous love and blessing. Holy Spirit, make me see All His coming means for me; Take the things of Christ, I pray, Show them to my heart today. — Frances Ridley Havergal

I was suffocating even before we left the house, but no one bothered to ask me how I felt. — Anne Frank

First be the best and then be first — John Wooden

The moved and the shaken. — Peter Watts

It annoys me how pretty my voice is ... that sounds incredibly immodest, but it annoys me how polite it can sound when perhaps what I'm singing is deeply acidic. — Thom Yorke

Drat! She'd invaded his hula hoop. — Virginia Smith

In Black Like Me, I tried to establish one simple fact, which was to reveal the insanity of a situation where a man is judged by his skin color, by his philosophical "accident" - rather than by who he is in his humanity. — John Howard Griffin

Let's go get ready to do something incredibly stupid."
"Business as usual, then," he said, and fled the kitchen, laughing, before I could swat him. — Seanan McGuire