Mizusawa Daiya Quotes & Sayings

Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with remark that I was the only 'religious nut' - his term for a believer - in his stable of regular reviewers. — Garry Wills

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions. — Dean Kamen

Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author. — United Nations

There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction writer envisions another world, and then some space probe finds it. If you believe in something strongly enough, I think you can make it happen. — Ridley Pearson

The 1947 best-seller Modern Woman: The Lost Sex urged that spinsters be barred from teaching children on the grounds of "emotional incompetence." It was the ultimate example of the pendulum swinging - instead of prohibiting the employment of married women as teachers, society now wanted marriage to be mandatory. "A great many children have unquestionably been damaged psychologically by the spinster teacher who cannot be an adequate model of a complete woman either for boys or girls," the authors argued. — Gail Collins

George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men. — Larry Kramer

I'm kind of claustrophobic ... It's not even like enclosed spaces. It's like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can't get out. — Dave Grohl

I try to most effectively and persuasively present our argument, in a way that gives other people the information they need to decide, on the merits, the wisdom of the path that the president has advocated. — Josh Earnest

Danger and anger are everywhere. Love is the rarity, the gem buried in the core of the mine, the outpost of God. — Tanith Lee

You know what's punk rock about marriage? Nothing. You know what's punk rock about marriage? All the puke and shit and piss. — Jenny Offill

our feet
are grape-squashed in memories

our skins are still flushed
from the touch
of summer's lips. — Sanober Khan