Kimiko Ikegami Quotes & Sayings

I am kinder to my body. I don't try to prove anything to myself or others. I keep thinking about the need to go slower, gentler and maintain a sense of humor about it all. — Richard Simmons

Ledge

Birds that love
high trees
and winds

and riding
flailing branches
hate ledges
as gripless
and narrow,

so that a tail
is not just
no advantage
but ridiculous,
mashed vertical
against the wall.
You will have
seen the way
a bird who falls
on skimpy places

lifts into the air
again in seconds --
a gift denied
the rest of us
when our portion
isn't generous. — Kay Ryan

We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking. — Helen Prejean

She got out and shut the door without looking back, picking her way through the snow to the black wooden door in the college wall. At least she hadn't told him not to follow. He watched as she carefully brushed the snow off the latch with her rolled umbrella before touching it with her suede gloves. She left the door half open behind her. He followed. When he reached the door he saw she had paused on the garden path leading to her hall and was doing something in the snow with the tip of her umbrella. Still not looking back, she moved on without waiting for him. When he reached the spot he saw that she had written 'I love you' in the snow. It was that night, he believed ever after, that she became pregnant. — Alan Judd

Rainbows would never spring from a crock full of credit cards or computer printouts. — Carrie Anne Noble

I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. — Gabriel Byrne

My expertise is running businesses. — Amit Bhatia

I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear,
or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze. — Richard Bode

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

We'll carry you for a bit. It's our turn. — Rae Carson

Dating or finding someone is the last thing on my mind. — Taylor Swift

I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor

The more others encounter us honoring the boundaries we have set for our lives, the more they will know that they can trust us with their lives. — Danny Silk