Makiano Quotes & Sayings

Each of us believes, quite unconsciously of course, that he alone pursues the truth, which the rest are incapable of seeking out and unworthy of attaining. This madness is so deep-rooted and so useful that it is impossible to realize what would become of each of us if it were someday to disappear. — Emil M. Cioran

As well as the way he always said Itadakimasu, quietly, before he started eating. — Banana Yoshimoto

I've always found wildlife very calming
except when animals are eating each other, of course. — Tom Upton

Working at the scene of the action, I have adopted Robert Capa's saying: 'If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close enough.' But in retrospect I add a corollary: if you're too close to events, you lose perspective. — Micha Bar-Am

The films I want to make, I really want to be passionate about. — Terry Zwigoff

I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations. — Ralph Nader

Every age has its own separatists. They are the intransigents, the undeviating purists who have to be right whatever the cost, who would sacrifice the world rather than compromise their own righteousness. — Edmund S. Morgan

A life of knowledge is not often a life of injury and crime. — Sydney Smith

The thought of you makes my days brighter and my nights filled with dreams. — Truth Devour

It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known. — Barbara Kingsolver

The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction. — Franz Grillparzer

People came to the desert because the stars were in the desert, and the stars had yet to be corrupted by man ... The stars, it seemed, would crush man in a scenic, gravitational panorama before man would ever corrupt the stars. — Rick Moody