Miyuko Izumi Quotes & Sayings

Nerves provide me with energy ... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried. — Mike Nichols

People only accept change in necessity and see necessity only in crisis. — Jean Monnet

He intrigued her. Powerful men, in her experience, were usually not so full of doubt. Kuni was consumed by the desire to do good for others, but uncertain what "good" might be and whether he was the right man for the job.
Kuni was the sort of man, Risana realized, who, rather than deceive himself, was so full of self-doubt that he could not longer see himself — Ken Liu

Experience is something you get when you don't really want it. — Ken Harrelson

Cold didn't worry him unduly. Given that his normal body temperature was way below human levels, the dip in the river had been no more than refreshing, certainly not deadly. — Marcus Sedgwick

It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, "Were he living I would make him a king;" but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again. — Emily Bronte

Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding. — Dominique Bouhours

If every man who passed an unjust judgment on his fellow should be condemned, how many judges would be found so vain and foolish as to review and condemn their Maker's work? — Clarence Darrow

Poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing. — May Sarton

Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say — Jaron Lanier

Your journey into the future can only begin when you are able to let go of the past. — Debasish Mridha

Occasionally a yellow leaf fell from the tree. Then one or the other of us would turn up his eyes as though to see the leaf fall once again. We didn't wait for the next leaf, which fell a little later. Out eyes lacked the patience. We didn't commit ourselves to leaves. Only to flying splashes of yellow that distracted our faces from one another's — Herta Muller

Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal. — Simone Elkeles

I think I'm brave because I've made decisions based - I hope not entirely selfishly - on what I think is right for me to do next. — Maeve Binchy