Kenkichi Nakajima Quotes & Sayings

Why can't you summon a command line and search your real-world home for 'Honda car keys,' and specify rooms in your house to search instead of folders or paths in your computer's home directory? It's a crippling design flaw in the real-world interface. — Richard Dooling

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life. — Oscar Wilde

I have this firm belief that I am who I am for a reason. If I change something, I'm cheating myself of whatever it is I'm supposed to learn from my body. You know, I'm legally blind. I'm 20/750, since I was in fifth grade. I wear glasses and contacts. But I won't even get LASIK. — Carrie Ann Inaba

I suspect there will never be a requiem for a dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn it's passing. — Hubert Selby Jr.

Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts. — Elizabeth George

It's a complicated relationship with a guitar. I love the Bullet, for sure. — Laurent Brancowitz

Holy water at my wrists and behind my ears; my version of Eau de Don'tbiteme — Karen Marie Moning

Small nations, when treated as equals, become the firmest of allies." It — Pat Frank

Any abundance, in any amount, is illusory if it does not safeguard its producers. — Wendell Berry

How, in the contemporary period, can we evoke the imagery that communicates the most profound and most richly developed sense of experiencing life? These images must point past themselves to that ultimate truth which must be told: that life does not have one absolutely fixed meaning. These images must point past all meanings given, beyond all definitions and relationships, to that really ineffable mystery that is just the existence, the being of ourselves and of our world. If we give that mystery an exact meaning we diminish the experience of its real depth. But when a poet carries the mind into a context of meanings and then pitches it past those, one knows that marvelous rapture that comes from going past all categories of definition. Here we sense the function of metaphor that allows us to make a journey we could not otherwise make ... — Joseph Campbell

Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves. — Charles Caleb Colton

Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more mature sense of what we need to do. To me, Reagan's brand of leadership was what I call 'a liturgy of absolution.' He absolved Americans almost in a priestly role to contend with sin. Who wouldn't want that? — Rick Perlstein

It seemed to me that in America blacks and whites work together but don't play together, and here blacks and whites play together but don't work together, Emenike said. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

To me, pain means you're pushing your body to give you everything its got. — Jason Ellis

The era itself has nothing to do with anything. We weren't really attached to that at all. I just saw this thing where they had a Poison concert on VH1, and to me, that is being attached to an era. — Slash