Ishiguro Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

Shoes are a neutral blessing for us because feet generally aren't regarded as a place where the battle for self-esteem is won or lost. Feet don't change size when the body does through the natural ageing process. — Simon Van Booy

Chess is like war on a board — Bobby Fischer

Women won't have total equality until men can get pregnant. — Diana Palmer

A man sits in an office deciding what stocks to buy. He imagines, no doubt, that he is planning his purchases according to his own judgment. In actual fact his judgment is a melange of impressions stamped on his mind by outside influences which unconsciously control his thought. He buys a certain railroad stock because it was in the headlines yesterday and hence is the one which comes most prominently to his mind; because he has a pleasant recollection of a good dinner on one of its fast trains; because it has a liberal labor policy, a reputation for honesty; because he has been told that J. P. Morgan owns some of its shares. — Edward L. Bernays

When I'm at home alone, I run up the stairs naked. It's quite funny. — Louis Tomlinson

Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge. — Alice Borchardt

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right! — William Shatner

The finite interval 0-1 on the Number Line is thus even more inconceivably crowded. There's not only an infinite number of infinite sequences of fractions, but also an infinite number of surds, each of which is itself numerically inexpressible except as an infinite sequence of nonperiodic decimals. Let's pause to consider the vertiginous levels of abstraction involved here. If the human CPU cannot apprehend or even really conceive of (infinity)s, an infinite number of individual members of which are themselves not finitely expressible, all in an interval so finite- and innocent-looking we use it in little kids' classrooms. All of which is just resoundingly weird. — David Foster Wallace

Jehovah is guarding all those loving him, But all the wicked ones he will annihilate. — David

Writing does not exist unless there is someone to read it, and each reader will take something different from a novel, from a chapter, from a line. — Claire Fuller