Largile Blanc Quotes & Sayings

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. — Paul Theroux

Refined, intense, wise, stiring, immediate, subtile, all the charmed qualities gather in Dropping the Bow. These translations are precious jewels. Like the erotic moods they investigate, these versions shimmer and startle with a palpable desire to be heard, and a mystical sense of impermanence. This is a transmission of a vital, extraordinary tradition. — Anne Waldman

Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

A moment of torture feels like an eternity, while an eternity of joy passes in a moment. Perhaps time is naught but an illusion. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you. — John Malkovich

Sleep came slower than a frigid woman. — Kinky Friedman

Odessa is the setting for this book, but it could be anyplace in this vast land where, on a Friday night, a set of spindly stadium lights rises to the heavens to so powerfully, and so briefly, ignite the darkness. — H. G. Bissinger

The key to a thrilling life of being sensitive to the voice of God and immediately obeying Him is the firm belief that God's plan for our lives is fundamentally better than anything we can dream up. — Rod Loy

The best way to spoil a good story is by sticking to the facts. — Evan Esar

We're all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young. — Jonah Goldberg

Only boring people are bored in relationships. — Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all the employees nothing but a bunch of scoundrels, was there not among them one single loyal devoted man who, had he wasted only an hour or so of the firm's time in the morning, was so tormented by conscience as to be driven out of his mind and actually incapable of leaving his bed? — Franz Kafka

God always rewards openly what was done in the secret. — Sunday Adelaja