Miyazaki Characters Quotes & Sayings

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. — Miguel De Unamuno

Its not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them, brought out by the particular circumstances. I want my young friends to live like that, and I think they, too, have such a wish. — Hayao Miyazaki

The characters are born from repetition, from repeatedly thinking about them. I have their outline in my head. I become the character and as the character I visit the locations of the story many, many times. Only after that I start drawing the character, but again I do it many, many times, over and over. And I only finish just before the deadline. — Hayao Miyazaki

MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough. — Ozzy Osbourne

Most rich people have a gangster in their ancestry somewhere. — Ken Follett

Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort. — Edward De Bono

I'd already lost my fucking mind and was already thinking of her as mine. — Jordan Silver

Thinking is what angels do - it is a property given to Man by God." "How do you suppose God gives it to us?" "I do not pretend to know, sir!" "If you take a man's brain and distill him, can you extract a mysterious essence - the divine presence of God on Earth?" "That is called the Philosophick Mercury by Alchemists." "Or, if Hooke were to peer into a man's brain with a good enough microscope, would he see tiny meshings of gears?" Daniel said nothing. Leibniz had imploded his skull. The gears were jammed, the Philosophick Mercury dribbling out his ear-holes. — Neal Stephenson

One of the problems we currently have is there hasn't been in the population any serious engagement with the ethics of war because we have an all-volunteer army. I would think the return to the draft would be an intervention that would require discussion that might be more helpful in terms of our ability to limit war. — Stanley Hauerwas

I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women. — Hayao Miyazaki

Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes. — Dee Hock

My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call. — Pat Conroy