Mitsuyasu Maenos Birthplace Quotes & Sayings

You could, if you wanted to, spend your entire life in a sitting position. When you weren't lying down. — Edward Abbey

Telling a story is like sowing a seed - you always hope to see it become a beautiful tree, with firm roots and branches that soar up in the sky. But it is a peculiar sowing, for you will never know whether your seed sprouts or dies. — Laila Lalami

How strange," she said, "not to recognize one's own face."
"You have no cause for complaint," Grant said huskily. Even bruised and pale and ravaged, her face was incomparable.
"Do you think so?" She stared into the looking glass without a trace of self-satisfactionshe had displayed at the ball. *That* Vivien had had no doubt of her many attractions. This woman was far less confident.
"Everyone thinks so. You're known as one of the great beauties of London."
"I don't see why." Catching his skeptical expression, she added, "Truly, I'm not fishing for compliments, it's just... seems a very ordinary face." She produced a comical, clownish expression, like a child experimenting with her reflection. A shaken laugh escaped her. "It doesn't seem to belong to me. — Lisa Kleypas

Does anyone in this land act like they're supposed to? — Tamora Pierce

I wanted you to have a place where you felt safe enough to cry if I could not be with you. — Erin Morgenstern

People behave badly and people are in prison and people are on death row, and there are no excuses for everybody's behavior, but most people are coming from abuse. — Dylan McDermott

I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal. — Ben Stein

It is inadmissible that systems of ideas like religions, which have held so considerable a place in history, and to which, in all times, men have come to receive the energy which they must have to live, should be made up of a tissue of illusions. — Emile Durkheim

He scarcely knew who was battling whom, who was winning, who was losing, as though he hoped that by doggedly ignoring the war it would return the favor — Khaled Hosseini

Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former; and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion. — Henry Fielding

I don't think that Hollywood will have much to do with changing politics. Hollywood usually reflects things. — George Clooney

Music is my life. The only other thing I've done is office work in different places. But no real professional career other than singing. — Gloria Gaynor

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes. — Paulo Coelho