Ishin Yoshimoto Quotes & Sayings

And then there were cats, thought Dog. He'd surprised the huge ginger cat from next door and had attempted to reduce it to cowering jelly by means of the usual glowing stare and deep-throated growl, which had always worked on the damned in the past. This time they had earned him a whack on the nose that had made his eyes water. Cats, Dog considered, were clearly a lot tougher than lost souls. He was looking forward to a further cat experiment, which he planned would consist of jumping around and yapping excitedly at it. It was a long shot, but it just might work. — Terry Pratchett

Fear and intimidation are tactics that work very well on those who allow themselves to be afraid and intimidated. — Morgan Rhodes

The privilege of money, as Edgar's parents saw it, was that you could get yourself into the great wild beauty - the thousand-meter-deep sea, the wide open West, an island inhabited mostly by dangerous animals, and feel alive and real - and then come over the crest of the hill and have someone meet you with a silver tray containing fresh fruit, aged scotch, a cold towel for your hands, and show you to a seat with a perfect view from which to tell the story of your adventure. — Ramona Ausubel

If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate. — Marion Barry

All this shows that, as in the case of Theophilus, so also in that of Jerome, much of the Origenist controversy of that day depended on political considerations and on contingence. Much also rested on gross misunderstandings and even the lack of direct reading of Origen's works, or, even worse, according to Origen's and Rufinus's denunciations, the deliberate alteration of these works. (658) — Ilaria Ramelli

Being patient will continue to remain something ridiculous as long as tomorrows continue to be something no more than a hypothesis! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Man came first through evolution. God came second through man's imagination. — Joey Lawsin

There is no movement without our own resistance. — Laura Schlessinger

Yet she resigned herself: reverently she put away in the chest of drawers her beautiful dress and even her satin shoes, whose soles had been yellowed by the slippery wax of the dance floor. Her heart was like them: contact with wealth had laid something over it that would not be wiped away. — Gustave Flaubert

I don't sing the way I used to, so I'm doing everything I can to put the word out that they shouldn't expect that. — Julie Andrews

Mykonos, which probably meant it was time for them to get — Rick Riordan

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music. — Moby

If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass. — Tori Amos

It's an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States ... I'm free to thwart and torment the authorities - that is to say, I can get out my hostilities - because I'm protected in my conscience by the knowledge that what I'm doing is morally right. I've never been so relaxed. I've never been so happy. — Benjamin Spock

Apparently I ain't the only cat on the block digs cheetos. — Ron White