Norihiko Takatani Quotes & Sayings

It's odd, but even when I am in pain I have a sexual urge. Perhaps especially when I am in pain I have a sexual urge. Or should I say that I am more attracted, more fascinated by women who cause me pain? — Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

Make a little effort to give up your insignificant quarrels and eventually a better world will follow. — Abhijit Naskar

I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams. — Erin Morgenstern

It's important not to take all this fashion stuff too seriously, and I kind of love the idea of cheesiness. — Joseph Altuzarra

Could beauty be caught and hurt
they had done her to death with their sneers
in ages and ages past,
could beauty be sacrificed
for a thrust of a sword,
for a piece of thin money
tossed up to fall half alloy
then beauty were dead
long, long before we saw her face. — H.D.

Doing work which has to be done over and over again helps us recognize the natural cycles of growth and decay, of birth and death, and thus become aware of the dynamic order of the universe. "Ordinary" work, as the root meaning of the term indicates, is work that is in harmony with the order we perceive in the natural environment. — Fritjof Capra

The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom. — Kate Grenville

Look at life from our perspective, and you eukaryotes will soon cease giving yourselves such airs. You bipedal apes, you stump-tailed tree-shrews, you desiccated lobe-fins, you vertebrated worms, you Hoxed-up sponges, you newcomers on the block, you eukaryotes, you barely distinguishable congregations of a monotonously narrow parish, you are little more than fancy froth on the surface of bacterial life. Why, the very cells that build you are themselves colonies of bacteria, replaying the same old tricks we bacteria discovered a billion years ago. We were here before you arrived, and we shall be here after you are gone. — Richard Dawkins

I would argue that Asean has been instrumental in driving both economic growth and political development, and that there can be no clearer example than its relations with Myanmar. — Najib Razak

What is with these guys?
Where's the thrill in watching snakes eat?
I certainly didn't thrill in watching humans eat. — Patrick Jennings