Katayama Quotes & Sayings

I wished the dream were real, and this reality a dream. But that wasn't the case. And that was why, whenever I woke up, I'd be crying. It wasn't because I was sad. When you return from a happy dream to sad reality, there's a chasm you have to step across, and you can't cross it without shedding tears. It doesn't matter how many times you do it. — Kyoichi Katayama

Here's what I've found in Louisiana: The voters want to know what you believe, what you stand for, and what you plan to do, not what shade your skin is. — Bobby Jindal

The objects in our system are instead a help to the child himself, he chooses what he wants for his own use, and works with it according to his own needs, tendencies and special interests. In this way, the objects become a means of growth. — Maria Montessori

It's not the parting or the absence that's sad. You love them, and that's why saying good-bye breaks your heart. — Kyoichi Katayama

I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny. — Larry David

It's really easy for us to miss each other in this big, big world... People I've met after a long time of looking; my important people. — Kyoichi Katayama

What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute. — Victoria Moran

It's not what you learn, it's the way you learn it. — J.R. Rim

They assert that their program is purely peaceful ... We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition. — Barack Obama

My commitment to stand behind Datsun gained the trust of dealers and sold cars. My motto was: Dealers make money first, and then we make money. — Yutaka Katayama

A life lived alone simply feels long and boring. But a life shared with someone you love reaches the place of parting in no time at all. — Kyoichi Katayama

Homeworkers embody the real American Dream. Not fame or fortune, but being your own boss. Calling your own shots. Taking control of your life, not necessarily to work more--or less--but to work the way you want to work. — Lionel Fisher

You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians. — David Lee Roth

In spite of all the progress we seem to have made, human emotions stay the same. Deep inside our hearts, we don't change very much. This poem was written two thousand years ago or more. It's from a time long before the quatrains and other formal styles you've learned in school were established. And yet, even today, we can understand the feelings of people from that time. You don't need education or scholarship for that. These feelings can be understood by anybody, I think. — Kyoichi Katayama

Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books. — Jasper Fforde

The second god lived by mountains that flowed
By the blue shiny lit roads
Had forgot what others still tried to grasp — Mark E. Smith

I could fall
And there's nothin' else I can do — Mark Lane

I am a canvas of my experiences, my story is etched in lines and shading, and you can read it on my arms, my legs, my shoulders, and my stomach. — Kat Von D.

Ukyo Katayama is undoubtedly the best Formula One driver that Grand Prix racing has ever produced — Murray Walker

A world without you is unknown to me. I don't even know if it exists. — Kyoichi Katayama

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience. — Michael Eisner

When you think you have no future, it's strange how pure you can become; but when you find yourself alive, you star to have desires again. — Kyoichi Katayama

Love cars, love people, love life. — Yutaka Katayama

I'm going to be honest, I would love for Flava Flav to be president. It would bring a lot of excitement to the country. — DJ Khaled

The Miata is taking the place of the 240Z . The fun of driving cars is the same as riding a horse. We need a car that is like riding on horseback. We are making robots. Robots don't like human control. — Yutaka Katayama

You accept the historical Jesus? — Albert Einstein

WHY THIS WORKS: Trousers and other things fall off your hangers because of two factors - imbalance and slipperiness. When you cross one pant leg over the other, you are solving the imbalance problem with evenness on both sides. Also, the friction between the two pant legs prevents slipperiness, allowing your pants to stay put and hanging. — Lisa Katayama