Ikue Ohtani Quotes & Sayings

I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together. — John Olsen

Moreover, because the slothful mind is typically brought to its downfall gradually, when we fail to control our speech, we move on to more harsh words. Thus, at first, we are happy to speak of others kindly; afterwards, we begin to pick at the lives of those of whom we speak, and finally our tongues break into open slander against them. — Gregory The Great

Don't be too anxious on my account. I have but one wish - to be in good health; the tedium is a passing matter, and cheerfulness depends in the last resort upon myself. Human beings have an incredible amount of endurance and will to live; I should never have expected to find so much in myself; now I know it from experience. Farewell! I hope that these few lines will give you much pleasure. Greet every one you see whom I have known - forget no one. I have not forgotten anybody. What can the children be thinking of me, and how do they explain to themselves my disappearance ? Farewell. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He who seeks revenge should dig two graves. — Mick Haines

If God wills, He'll resolve it, if not, then there's a better plan... — Norma Gail

Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun. — Janet Fitch

Even when I was modelling, I never had a mom sitting on my head and a bunch of people waiting on me. I've always been independent. I'll do my thing and go. — Malaika Arora Khan

Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin. He once compared this mental state with the sort of passive seeing that enables the eye, in a dim light or at a great distance, to grasp details with greater clarity by focusing slightly to one side of the object of interest. When active, strained vision only obscures and frustrates, looking away often permits the eyes to see and interpret the shapes of what it sees. Thus does inattention allow the mind to register the still, small whisper of the daughter of the voice. — Laurie R. King

Remembrance is to the heart what water is to the fish. And what is the state of a fish that leaves water? — Ibn Taymiyyah

Life's adventure is important. — Jaycee Dugard

Wow, Cross. I think you missed your calling. Screw demon hunting: you should clearly be writing Hallmark cards. — Rachel Hawkins

It's normal to shy away from illness and death. It's natural to gravitate toward laughter and life. — Ellyn Bache

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well. — Zadie Smith

Nourishment is a factor which touches on the fundamental right to life. — Pope Benedict XVI