Isako Washio Quotes & Sayings

Example, not precept, is the best teaching aid. — Sathya Sai Baba

The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself ... Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel. — George Gershwin

She has survived but she doesnt know what. — Gwen Calvo

The decentralized nature of online conversations often makes it easier to manipulate public opinion, both domestically and globally. Regimes that once relied on centralized systems of media control can now deliver ideological messages more subtly, with the help of little-known intermediaries like anonymous commenters on websites. — Evgeny Morozov

I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children. — Jim Butcher

The greatest fear in life is not of death, but unsolicited change. — Raheel Farooq

I do think once I get into expectations, I've just trained myself. I've just trained myself to just move on to the next. — Eva Mendes

None of us understood that the body is a connected thing. — Lucy Grealy

He had laid his head back until his scalp had contacted his spine, that far back, and opened his throat, and a sound rose in the auditorium like a wind coming from all four directions, low and terrifying, rumbling up from the ground beneath the floor, and it gathered into a roar that sucked at the hearing itself, and coalesced into a voice that penetrated into the sinuses, and finally into the very minds of those hearing it, taking itself higher and higher, more and more awful and beautiful, the originating ideal of all such sounds ever made, of the foghorn and the ship's horn, the locomotive's lonesome whistle, of opera singing and the music of flutes and the continuous moaning of bagpipes. And suddenly it all went black. And the time was gone forever. — Denis Johnson