Mutsuko Yamada Quotes & Sayings

You are often asked to explain your work, as if the reader isn't able to work it out. And people always try and label you by your work. — Sarah Hall

They all have tired mouths
and bright seamless souls.
And a longing (as for sin)
sometimes haunts their dreams.
They are almost all alike;
in God's gardens they keep still,
like many, many intervals
in his might and melody.
Only when they spread their wings
are they wakers of a wind:
as if God with his broad sculptor-
hands leafed through the pages
in the dark book of the beginning. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Light
Light
The visible reminder of Invisible Light. — T. S. Eliot

But if you admit to not having the answer to any of the problems facing the nation, why should anyone vote of your for President?" "I believe I am the best qualified to wing it." But — Rick Perlstein

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and that's very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about. — Blake Bailey

I can't talk you in terms of time
your time and my time are different — Graham Greene

One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue. — William Wordsworth

There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off. — Angela Carter

When I did 'Horses,' I never expected to make another album. — Patti Smith

The child brings with him into the world, not character, but disposition. He has tendencies which may need only to be strengthened, or, again, to be diverted or even repressed. His character - the efflorescence of the man wherein the fruit of his life is a-preparing - is original disposition, modified, directed, expanded by education; by circumstances; later, by self-control and self-culture; above all, by the supreme agency of the Holy Ghost, even where that agency is little suspected, and as little solicited. — Charlotte M. Mason

A woman says to a man, "I haven't seen you around here." "Yes, I just got out of jail for killing my wife." "So you're single!" — Henny Youngman

Where, incidentally, a holiday meal was not being served. My mother worked as a waitress at Palmer's Supper — Larry Watson