Nisemonogatari Quotes & Sayings

We should think more about it, and accustom ourselves to the thought of death. We can't allow the fear of death to creep up on us unexpectedly. We have to make the fear familiar, and one way is to write about it. I don't think writing and thinking about death is characteristic only of old men. I think that if people began thinking about death sooner, they'd make fewer foolish mistakes. — Dmitri Shostakovich

Console the failure, but nurture the hunger. — Bryan Cranston

Genetically, we are essentially the same creatures as we were at the beginning. We are still hunters and gatherers. — Richard Louv

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor. — Jonathan Shapiro

The media plays up celebrity a lot, but it doesn't hold a candle to being a scientist. There's a lot to be said for what they all do, and are trying to accomplish. — Joe Perry

That was how we spoke, my mother and I: in puns and games and rhymes. In, you might say, lyrics. This was our tragedy. We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny. We were tinpan alleycats, but the gift of music had been withheld. We could not sing along, though we always knew the words. Still, defiantly, we roared our tuneless roars, we fell off the high notes and were trampled by the low ones. And if bitter ices were the consequence, well, there were worse fates in the world than that. — Salman Rushdie

I'm proud I'm English and I'm passionate about my country. — Wayne Rooney

Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil. — Augustus William Hare

Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed. — Chuck Palahniuk

Does Playboy still run fiction?"
"I have absolutely no idea, Melinda," he said, grinning. — Robyn Carr

...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.'

'What is that?'

' Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail. — Agatha Christie

It occurred to me with a certain uncomfortable forcefulness that I didn't know the first thing about the only planet I was ever going to live on. — Bill Bryson

One day, we'll have 10, 20 or 50 Jaleos around America or around the world. — Jose Andres