Niponica Quotes & Sayings

When I get up in the morning, I stay nude for three or four hours. If I really feel like getting formal, I'll put on board shorts. — Iggy Pop

You know how summer goes. You yearn for it and yearn for it, but there's always something wrong. Everywhere you look, there are insects thickening the air, and birds rifling trees, and enormous, heavy leaves dragging down branches. You want to trammel it, wreck it, smash things down. The afternoons are so fat and long. You want to see if anything you do matters. * — Emily Fridlund

We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible ... So we will do them anyway. — William Wilberforce

Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the servers and software. — Samuel J. Palmisano

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me. — Camillo Di Cavour

Sometimes, despite the structured chaos always associated with mornings, they would simply lie together in each other's arms for a few more minutes, as if drawing the strength to face the upcoming day. — Nicholas Sparks

Then I should be dead really soon, because you're stressing me out. — Courtney Summers

Our bodies, speeches and minds need to be trained so that they will do anything we want. We can cry or laugh at once when we want to. Then it will be a natural response; we will cry when it is time to cry, and laugh when we should laugh. Do you understand? We can get angry when necessary; we can be gentle if we have to. We will completely become our own master. Then, no matter what we want to do, it will benefit the world. It is not difficult to attain this stage; all we need to do is to mediate. — Ching Hai

Time [is] flowing in the middle of the night. — Alfred The Great

Finding meaning in the moment is what gives those meanings a value worth remembering. — Steven Redhead

You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills. — Anatoly Karpov

Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'. — Michael J. Sandel

If you intend to drink yourself to death," Amelia had told Leo calmly, "I wish you would do it at a more affordable place."
"But I'm a viscount now," Leo had replied nonchalantly. "I have to do it with style, or what will people say?"
"That you were a wastrel and a fool, and the title might just as well have gone to a monkey?"
That had elicited a grin from her handsome brother. "I'm sure that comparison is quite unfair to the monkey. — Lisa Kleypas

I've made more mistakes than anyone I know. Sometimes I learned something, and sometimes I just find myself doing it again. It makes me mad when I wasn't smart enough to learn the first time. You just think it's going to be different the next time, and it's not, as it turns out. — Jim Pattison

When I look out into your faces, you know what I see? I see a little bit of Elvis in each and every one of you out there. — Mojo Nixon