Makiharaayu Quotes & Sayings

Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials. — Howard Thurman

granite headland, drawing ever closer, looks like an unholy tooth, something black and dangerous, — Anthony Doerr

The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed. — James A. Baldwin

In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that someone else has done. In contrast to more direct character building, your guy doesn't initiate the sequence; he completes it. Exactly how he completes it can tell readers a lot about him. — Nancy Kress

Home is a complex and resonant idea. — Gregory Allen Howard

There's always something we can complain about. We're all one. Things could always be better, but things could always be worse. — Marla Gibbs

You're not terrified of me. You're terrified of letting yourself care for me, and I can't say I blame you. People who love me usually end up dead. But you see, I'm not going to give you any choice. You belong to me now whether you like it or not."
"I don't like it, not one bit!"
"Try to escape," he suggested coolly. "Go ahead. See what happens. Give me one excuse to take what I want from you, even if it is against your will. I want you that much. Too damned much." He turned without warning and kissed her, flattening her back against the pine mast. — Gaelen Foley

You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films. — Ray Bradbury

Today a Scot is leading a British army in France [Field Marshall Douglas Haig], another is commanding the British Grand Fleet at sea [Admiral David Beatty], while a third directs the Imperial General Staff at home [Sir William Roberton]. The Lord Chancellor is a Scot [Viscount Finlay]; so are the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Foreign Secretary [Bonar Law and Arthur Balfour]. The Prime Minister is a Welshman [David Lloyd George], and the First Lord of the Admiralty is an Irishman [Lord Carson]. Yet no one has ever brought in a bill to give home rule to England! — John Hay Beith

The text illustrates the pictures - it provides a connective tissue for me. I usually refine the text last, partly because pictures are harder to do, so it's easier to edit words - I use text as grout in between the tiles of the pictures. — Shaun Tan

Life is a risk, Abby. Choose how and with whom you want to share it because you may not get another chance. — M.K. Eidem

It's not that we should declare the praises of God. It's that we may. — Louie Giglio

I appreciate folks asking for my autograph. — Wolfman Jack

I actually don't smoke weed, but I've played a lot of stoners - especially with Seth Rogen. — James Franco

When he pulled out his gun weighted with a meaning I couldn't quite comprehend, placing it silently in my hand, I understood that my words didn't matter to a man intent on speaking the language of the unforgiven. — Rachel Thompson