Nagakura Kenichi Quotes & Sayings

The calmer and more well-ordered my desktop is, the more I can convince myself I'm on top of things. — Steven Hall

But Amy," Elder says. "Space suits! — Beth Revis

Here I stand, I can do no other, God help me. Amen! — Martin Luther

I prefer to sleep with deaf girls. Those crazy chicks never have a safe word. — Anthony Jeselnik

They came generally from people writing theses on fantasy or on the Dark Is Rising books. They were full of questions I'd never thought about and false assumptions that I didn't want to think about. They would ask me in great detail for, say, the specific local and mythical derivations of my Greenwitch, a leaf-figure thrown over a Cornish cliff as a fertility sacrifice, and I would have to write back and say, "I'm terribly sorry; I made it all up." They told me I echoed Hassidic myth, which I hadn't read, and the Mormon suprastructure, which I'd never even heard of. They saw symbols and buried meanings and allegories everywhere. I'd thought I was making a clear soup, but for them it was a thick mysterious stew.

from "In Defense of the the Artist" in Signposts to Criticism of Children's Literature (1983) — Susan Cooper

Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history. — Adolf Hitler

When I get mean, I get mean. — Mick Mars

Thank You, Lord, that I am a child of Yours, set apart for Your glory, and that You hear my prayers. When I pray, help me to have the peace of knowing You have heard my prayer and will answer in Your way and in Your perfect timing. Show me if there is ever anything in my life that would become a barrier between me and You so that my prayers would go unanswered. — Stormie O'martian

That complete statement which is literature. — Virginia Woolf

Encouraging girls to explore sexuality within mutually caring, emotionally connected relationships is one thing; insisting on it is another. — Peggy Orenstein

If I'll be funnier than this, I'll become a joke. — Chandan Sharma

So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant. — George Harrison

The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also. — Horace

I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper. — Umberto Eco

We are ignorant of the meaning of the dragon in the same way that we are ignorant of the meaning of the universe; but there is something in the dragon's image that fits man's imagination, and this accounts for the dragon's appearance in different places and periods. — Jorge Luis Borges