Norimichi Hirakawa Quotes & Sayings

To be honored by success is to take your life seriously. To humble-talk about it is to take yourself seriously. — Meghan Daum

If you want to see that human story unfold, if you want to understand that only the unexpected life is worth a damn, spend some time with 46 years of Lou Reed's work: music that leaped and then looked. Safety is for the godless and the faithless. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page. — Barbara Mertz

Would my head were a head of lettuce. I drove the last car over the Sagamore Bridge before the state police closed it off. The Cape Cod Canal all atempest beneath. No cars coming, no cars going. The bridge cables flapping like rubber bands. You think in certain circumstances a few thousand feet of bridge isn't a thousand miles? The hurricane wiped out Dennis. Horace thanked God for insurance. I saved our little girl. You want me to say, Hurrah! Hurrah! but I can't, I won't, because to save her once isn't to save her, and still she thumps as if the world was something thumpable. As if it wasn't silence on a fundamental level. Yap on, wife, yap on. Thump, daughter, thump. Louder, Orangutan, louder. I can't hear you. — Peter Orner

When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy? — Maaza Mengiste

She was too intent upon her work, and too earnest in what she said, and too composed and quiet altogether, to be on the watch for any look he might direct towards her in reply; so the shaft of his ungrateful glance fell harmless, and did not wound her. — Charles Dickens

Books are the immortality of the race, the father and mother of most that is worth while cherishing in our hearts. To spread good books about, to sow them on fertile minds, to propagate understanding and a carefulness of life and beauty, isn't that high enough mission for a man? — Christopher Morley

Diamonds are forever. Magic not so much. — Chloe Neill

There is nothing that I would do ever to break my mother's heart. — Gene Simmons

I'm proud of myself for doing my best. That's all anyone can ask of me. — Stefanie Weisman

How beautiful she loked, but there was nobody to see, nobody. — Katherine Mansfield

Most of the neighbors hated us in an offhand sort of manner, since we had twice the space they did, plus a parking area and a small yard - all things virtually unheard of in modern-day San Francisco. I was sure they'd change their minds if they knew how much I'd bled to earn that house. Or maybe not. Reserved parking is hard to come by in this city. — Seanan McGuire

My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone. — Chris Hughes