Minano Nihongo Quotes & Sayings

What will maintain the pinnacle position of our nation in the world: the ability to shoot a 25-foot jump shot, or the ability to solve a quadratic equation? — Ben Carson

I always wanted to live to about 70. I thought that'd be a good age. — Evel Knievel

The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions. — Michael Gira

A personal revolution is the consequence of confronting self - as is. — T.F. Hodge

Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture. — Jodi Picoult

We find we breathe again, and hear the surgeon hum.
Outside, in the street, a car starts up. The heart regularly
Thunders. — James Kirkup

Pure has become impure,
Impure has now become pure.
Good has now become bad,
Bad has become evil.
For one to live is to die,
for one to die is to live.
-Kikyo — Rumiko Takahashi

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color. — Beatrice Wood

Never trust a woman's tears, Alyosha. I am never for the woman in such cases. I am always on the side of the men. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience - nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the ability to reason will beat bright ideas and unassisted experience everytime. — Carroll Smith

Not every child takes instantly to books like a duck to water, but I don't believe there are children who hate books. There are just children who haven't yet found the right books for them. — Amanda Craig

Who in all his works sees God, in truth he goes to God. — Ram Dass

Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along. — E. M. Forster