Hiyori Shiina Quotes & Sayings

But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten. They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury's, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play. — Alan Bennett

If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way. — Loretta Young

Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had said it after long deliberation when only I provoked it from you, I will cling to it from among a thousand, to be provoked and hurl it back with something I mean no more than you meant that, something for you to cling to and retreat clinging to. — William Gaddis

Never judge a person if you don't know him. — Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I hate it, it is tedious ... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style. — Kathy Griffin

Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it. — Elizabeth McCracken

If there is progress anywhere it is because there has been people who worked for it not just prayed for it. — Sunday Adelaja

Honestly, everything else aside, I like finding stuff out about her. I mean, that I didn't know before. I had no idea who she really was. I honestly never thought of her as anything but my crazy beautiful friend who does all the crazy beautiful things. — John Green

Have your being outside this body of birth and death and all your problems will be solved. They exist because you believe yourself born to die. Undeceive yourself and be free. You are not a person. — Nisargadatta Maharaj

I don't realize how rare it is to genuinely have sincere love for everyone you work with. Especially in Hollywood, but even in life. — Eden Sher

Man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality. — Salman Rushdie

Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws. — Elizabeth Isaacs

We [USA] have a $16 trillion debt which these tax increases will do nothing to solve and you will have at least 200,000 less jobs next year than you have now. And the people who vote for that will be responsible for that decision and they will held accountable for that terrible public policy. — Marco Rubio

I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me! — Laura Linney