Nomasei Quotes & Sayings

We should view our government the way we should a friendly, cuddly lion. Just because he's friendly and cuddly shouldn't blind us to the fact that he's still got teeth and claws. — Walter E. Williams

The life prospects of an American are more dependent on the income and education of his parents than in any of the other advanced industrial countries. — Joseph Stiglitz

There were about thirty of them, I think - all women; all seated at tables, bearing drinks and books and papers. You might have passed any one of them upon the street, and thought nothing; but the effect of their appearance all combined was rather queer. They were dressed, not strangely, but somehow distinctly. They wore skirts - but the kind of skirts a tailor might design if he were set, for a dare, to sew a bustle for a gent. Many seemed clad in walking-suits or riding-habits. Many wore pince-nez, or carried monocles on ribbons. There were one or two rather startling coiffures; and there were more neckties than I had ever seen brought together at any exclusively female ensemble. — Sarah Waters

There's a ghost in this house! An unquiet spirit!"
Unquiet spirit?" Shane said under his breath. "Is that politically correct for pissed off? You know, like Undead American or something? — Rachel Caine

They're each on separate coasts but I think that the deep Maine woods shares some similarities to the Pacific Northwest. — Mark Duplass

Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all. — Imelda Staunton

If we wish to understand the role of China in today's global society, we would do well to remind ourselves of the tragic, titanic struggle which that country waged in the 1930s and 1940s not just for its own national dignity and survival, but for the victory of all the Allies, west and east, against some of the darkest forces that history has ever produced. — Rana Mitter

Other than the voices in my head, I think I'm pretty normal. — Tom Upton

There's a fine line between living in the moment and being downright stupid. — Kamini Patel

Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you'd be okay. — Jojo Moyes

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience. — Gaius Iulius Caesar

In all honesty, I think I just played what I felt was right for me. And I think I would have done the same thing, even if I'd been born later, when Charlie Parker was influencing everybody. The truth is, I never gave it much thought. I just played what I had to play. — Benny Carter

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too. — Paul Allen

What you wish to do you are apt to think you ought to do. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

If I had one wish I would ask for a big enough ass for the whole world to kiss. — Eminem