Misako Uno Quotes & Sayings

Mendham was a cadaverous man with a magnificent beard. He looked,indeed, as if he had run to beard as a mustard plant runs to seed. But when he spoke you found he had a voice as well. — H.G.Wells

One learns a landscape finally not by knowing the name or identity of everything in it, but by perceiving the relationships in it--like that between the sparrow and the twig. The difference between the relationships and the elements is the same as that between written history and a catalog of events. — Barry Lopez

I love the way he looks in his uniform, all man with just a hint of the boy I fell for all those years ago. — Collette West

Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens' lives. Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons. — Ron Paul

There's a snake hidden in the grass. — Virgil

Reading will help you to discover your sacred-self — Lailah Gifty Akita

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. — Friedrich Nietzsche

When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely ... Having a big family solves that problem. — Michael Chabon

Her nightmare clung to her like the smell of smoke to cloth. — Shannon Hale

The economic and technological changes are real, but I just can't bring myself to wax apocalyptic about the future of books. — David Edelstein

As I wrote more I became more critical of myself and I think that you have to be your harshest judge. I don't ever believe that what I write is my best work. I always think that I can hone it. I can always think that I can make it a little bit better. — Homer Hickam

Love is the most powerful force on this world. You can't touch it but feel it. You can bind together the whole world with it, you can win the war with it. It is faster than light, sharper than laser knife. It is softer than puffer candy but can melt your heart. — Debasish Mridha

Perhaps this was the first instance of that quiet way of "speaking for" a place not yet occupied, or at least not improved as much as it may be, which their descendants have practised, and are still practising so extensively. Not Any seems to have been the sole proprietor of all America before the Yankees [ ... ] At any rate, I know that if you hold a thing unjustly, there will surely be the devil to pay at last. — Henry David Thoreau

I just peed and forgot to take off my underwear. — Chelsea Handler