Nomiya Tsubaki Quotes & Sayings

When Lillian left work in the early evening the streets were slick and shiny with rain and the lamps flared yellow giving her the melancholy feeling that always came with the rain and the dark. She'd just struggled to push up her umbrella when the farmer from Saskatchewan came out of the shadows and tipped his hat again, very politely, and said could he escort her home? She put her small hand on his broad arm and held the umbrella over both their heads (he was very tall) and he walked her all the way back to her lodging-house where the landlady, Mrs Raicevic, looked after Edmund after school. By then, Lillian had learned the farmer's name and she said, 'Edmund, this is Mr Donner,' and Pete Donner squatted right down and said, 'Hello there, Edmund, you can call me Pete.' Although he never did, preferring to call him 'Pop' almost from the day his mother married him. — Kate Atkinson

The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can suddenly become someone else when previously hidden strands of his character are called to the fore by circumstance. — Elliot Perlman

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive. — Gregory Orr

Try to focus on the things that you do have instead of obsessing over things you don't — Hannah Hart

I think small towns are the closest to heaven you can get on earth. I'm glad that some other people, my wonderful readers especially, feel the same way I do. — Diana Palmer

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract. — Dennis Prager

I'm not interested in making clothes that are not accessible. — Amber Valletta

Let the love remain. Let the love be in the air. Let the love conquer hearts. Let the feeling of love intoxicate me. Let the feeling of love drown me. — Girdhar Joshi

Love has to be ... flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss. — Pablo Neruda

A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover. — Aristotle.

Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips. — Mahatma Gandhi

I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought. — Graham Greene

I think being an actor in general is acknowledging that we are constantly playing different roles, that we have all these different parts of ourselves and instead of pretending that you are just one thing, as an actor you get to admit that you've got all this stuff going on. — David Hyde Pierce

If you want to ascend like the Prophet to the sky of immortality, know this very well: Fasting is your Arabian stallion. — Rumi

I love Canada, and I dated someone who was Canadian a few years ago, and she brought me into a deeper understanding of the greatness of the culture. — Eileen Myles