Kawabata Snow Quotes & Sayings

Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference. — Mort Sahl

Presently it occurred to him that he wished he was sick; then he could stay home from school. — Mark Twain

Here in our mountains, the snow falls even on the maple leaves. — Yasunari Kawabata

I think I'm like wine. The older I get, the better I get. — Zlatan Ibrahimovic

The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke. — Yasunari Kawabata

Living for the satisfaction of only one part of my body (my mouth) [is] unholy. — Lisa Morrone

Nature awakens in brilliant colors of autumn, making me wish winter would bid adieu. — Richelle E. Goodrich

In Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata, the first of Japan's two Nobel laureates, describes the sad and sorry love affair of a geisha from the country and an intellectual from the city. It's — Nancy Pearl

THE TRAIN came out of the long tunnel into the snow country. — Yasunari Kawabata

I thought I was an actor playing a wizard. But really, I was a wizard playing an actor. — Daniel Radcliffe

It was a stern night landscape. The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void. As the stars came nearer, the sky retreated deeper and deeper into the night clolour. The layers of the Border Range, indistinguishable one from another, cast their heaviness at the skirt of the starry sky in a blackness grave and somber enough to communicate their mass. The whole of the night scene came together in a clear, tranquil harmony. — Yasunari Kawabata

Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages. — Baltasar Gracian