Kyoka Izumi Quotes & Sayings

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. — E.B. White

Many children, early on, acquire a love of places they have never been. Often, such wonder is summarily crushed on the crawl through the sludge of murky, confused adolescence on to the flat, cracked pan of adulthood with its airless vistas ever lurking beyond the horizon. Oh, well, sometimes such gifts of curiosity, delight and adventure do indeed survive the stationary trek, said victims ending up as artists, scholars, inventors and other criminals bent on confounding the commonplace and the platitudes of peaceful living. But never mind them for now, since, for all their flailing subversions, nothing really ever changes unless in service to convenience. — Steven Erikson

All I really need," he continued, "is for you to act as a deterrent."
"A deterrent?" she choked out.
"A human shield, if you will."
"What?"
"I cannot be left alone with that woman," he said, and he felt no remorse at the low desperation in his voice. "Please, if you have any care for your fellow man."
Her lips clamped together in a suspicious line. "I'm not certain what I get out of the equation."
"You mean besides the joy of my delightful company?"
"Yes," she said, with an impressive lack of inflection, "besides that. — Julia Quinn

Recording is a lengthy process, but onstage it's completely different; tape is not running - life is running, and cannot be rewound. — Doseone

We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power. — Nancy Gibbs

The enjoyment of the sufferer finds expression in those moans; if he did not feel enjoyment in them he would not moan. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie. — Robert Breault

Like it or not, life is a series of competitions. You may be competing for a grade, a spot on a team, a job, or the largest account in town. The higher your self-esteem is, the better you get along with yourself, with others, and the more you'll accomplish. — Harvey MacKay

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it. — David Duchovny

Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics. — Herbert Marcuse

The power of letters is immeasurable. Use them with care". — Kyoka Izumi

I have seen Yunho for 6 years, I know everything about him from his personality to his body. — Jaejoong

Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies. — Alexander Pope

Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana