Nashimoto And Associates Quotes & Sayings

I'll call somebody 'dumb' or 'stupid' if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don't know any other word for it, and if they don't like the word, that's too bad. — Bill Parcells

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings. — Dean Koontz

The age of clear answers was over. So was the age of characters and plots. Despite her journal sketches, she no longer really believed in characters. They were quiant devices that belonged to the nineteenth century. The very concept of character was founded on errors that modern psychology had exposed. Plots too were like rusted machinery whose wheels would no longer turn. A modern novelist could no more write characters and plots than a modern composer could a Mozart symphony. It was thought, perception, sensations that interested her, the conscious mind as a river through time, and how to represent its onward roll, as well as the tributaries that would swell it, and the obstacles that would divert it. If only she could reproduce the clear light of a summer's morning, the sensations of a child standing at a window, the curve and dip of a swallow's flight over a pool of water. The novel of the future would be unlike anything in the past. — Ian McEwan

Feeling sympathy and searching for explanations isn't the same as believing that the violence is justified. — Tariq Ramadan

I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar. — Randy Bachman

The tasks I set out for myself are what I do to beat the perfect pointlessness of life. — Henry Rollins

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. — Maya Angelou

I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity. — Paul Nurse

The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity. — Christian Nestell Bovee