Mamehara Quotes & Sayings

I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different. — Tadashi Yanai

Behind every successful woman(author) is a non-demanding husband content with a fruit-bowl. — Andy Paula

That would have been a great ticket, Reagan and Ford - an actor and a stuntman. — Johnny Carson

I can put on my resume: 'Can play dead.' — Tom Verica

Huh ... guess they didn't want a cracker after all. Another myth BUSTED — Kevin Hearne

Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale. One night in Hiroshima it occurred to me that the moon behind a certain cloud formation looked very like a painkiller dissolving in a glass of water. I didn't work toward that simile, it was simply there: I was mugged, as it were, by the similarity between these two very different things. Literary composition can be a similar process. The writer's real world and the writer's fictional world are compared, and these comparisons turned into text. But other times literary composition can be a plain old slog, and nothing to do with zones or inspiration. It's world making and the peopling of those worlds, complete with time lines and heartache. — David Mitchell

There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. — William Shakespeare