Nishikawa Cooper Quotes & Sayings

When we are in control of everything and we have great panels of push buttons whereby the slightest touch fulfills every wish, what will we want then? We will eventually want to arrange to have a special, red button marked "surprise" built into the panel. Touch that button and what happens? We will suddenly disappear from our normal consciousness and find ourselves in a situation very much like the one we are now in, where we feel ourselves to be a little bit out of control, subject to surprises, and subject to the whims of an unpredictable universe. — Alan W. Watts

The worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp on reality. — Shyza Chaudhry

Authors," he murmured with a grin. "You all think your work is flawless, and anyone who tries to change a single word is an idiot."

"And editors consider themselves the most intelligent people they know," Amanda shot back. — Lisa Kleypas

Someone said that once a family producers a writer, that's the end of the family. — Zoe Kazan

Sleepovers and dance parties and those talks we would have until three in the morning that would make us feel lousy the next day because we'd slept like hell but also feel good because the talks were like blood transfusions, moments of realness and hope that were pinpricks of light in the dark fabric of small-town life. — Gayle Forman

No past. No future. Just present. Give it a chance. — David Levithan

I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them. — Anton Chekhov

Former President George W. Bush has hired a man to lead his presidential think tank in Dallas. The man was hired because he was the only candidate who could say the words, 'George W. Bush think tank' with a straight face. — Conan O'Brien

Republicans are listening to America's job creators and working to address their concerns with real solutions. — Peter Roskam

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line. — Basil Bunting

I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well. — Rachel Miner

My eyes make pictures when they are shut. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge