Kusunoki Tomori Quotes & Sayings

I think as the world changes, we have to keep up. We have to note what is happening, and I think writing has always had a powerful corrective influence and possibility. We have to write about what's good, and we also have to write about parts of our culture that are not good, that are not working out. I think it takes a new eye. — Lee Smith

That it was valuable rather than merely expensive. Ramsey's — Lionel Shriver

Almost every pearl on sale today was born of the planned sexual violation of a small creature, and that considerable suffering hangs on those necklace strings. — Victoria Finlay

It was as if the boundary between friendship and love was so thin and imperceptible that one could cross it without even knowing it was there. — Orson Scott Card

Once I realized that Australia's top highway speed of 110 kilometers per hour was the same as going 65 in the U.S., all my hardened American enthusiasm for speed went limp until it felt like the car was hardly moving at all. Even worse, most stretches of the highway are restricted to 60 kilometers per hour, which is how fast Americans go when we're, like, passing a stopped school bus disembarking small children, or driving through a herd of puppies in the road. — Elle Lothlorien

Yes, he's a good boy. Never been in trouble at school and he's on the honor roll. Captain of the football team. All-around psycho serial killer who hides bodies in the fridge whenever his parents go out of town. (Nick)
I also eat babies for breakfast and torture small animals for fun. My therapist says I'm making real progress though. (Caleb) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I think you're where you have to be and I'm not a person who wants to control things too much because I love surprises. — Marion Cotillard

For any happiness, even in this world, quite a lot of restraint is going to be necessary ... — C.S. Lewis

Reality has changed chameleonlike before my eyes so many times that I have learned, or am learning, to trust almost anything except what appears to be so. — Maya Angelou

The study of human institutions is always a search for the most tolerable imperfections. — Richard A. Epstein

The Tao has no place for pettiness, and nor has Virtue. Pettiness is dangerous to Virtue; pettiness is dangerous to the Tao. It is said, rectify yourself and be done. — Zhuangzi

But people have their own troubles and tend to forget. One is not all that interesting. Even Hitler is being forgotten at last. — Iris Murdoch

But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Vote wisely, even if that means not voting at all. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York. — Alice Neel