Ichizo Kobayashi Quotes & Sayings

I wrote it in one sitting early the next morning. When something assembles itself that fast, it's clear it's been composing itself somewhere in the unknowable back of the mind for a long time. It wanted to be written; it was restless for the racetrack; it galloped along once I sat down at the computer. — Rebecca Solnit

A person either hates losing enough to change or he hates changing enough to lose. — Orrin Woodward

The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest against them, and booing is a pretty weak way of doing it. — Alastair Campbell

Don't take things too seriously, and just chill. — Kailash Kher

[On Female Attraction to Men in Uniform] That male military persona feeds a subconscious, passive-aggressive female desire to dominate the warrior as he is perceived an iconic example of masculinity (particularly amongst traditionally warlike cultures). The damsel in distress theme always struck me as embodying this: the hapless, innocently beautiful woman unwittingly enraptures the heroic male so completely that he would risk all to submit to her at his own peril, and quite in spite of it. — Tiffany Madison

I was and still am happier than a pig in slop. — Jim Harbaugh

I'm not planning what I listen to, except when I think the music can guide me to some emotional place I want to be reminded of. — Jonathan Lethem

Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of political climates or coercions, in spite of careers being won or lost, in spite of the fear of being criticized, outcast, or disliked. I believe freedom begins with naming things. Humanity is preserved by it. — Eve Ensler

All we ever got in those [early] days was Where are you from? Liverpool? You'll have to be in London before you can do it. Nobody's ever done it from Liverpool. — Paul McCartney

Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term. — Bill Shorten

Christ needs people today who are made of martyr stuff! Dare to take a strong, uncompromised stand for Him. — Billy Graham

The basic reality is that the risks that scare people and the risks that kill people are very different. — Peter Sandman