Norishio Quotes & Sayings

Most of the stats say that 90% of people who buy a book or check one out of a library would never get past the first chapter. To me, the title better say everything there is to say about the book. — Larry Winget

I've never really heard anybody imitating anything of mine the way they do with Edward Van Halen's stuff. — Steve Vai

Think of the magic of the foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle and the dance is a celebration of that miracle. — Martha Graham

I don't care very much for miniatures. I don't try to beat my opponents quickly because if they are strong, I think I should respect them. It is too risky to play sharply to beat them in 20 moves. — Bent Larsen

Men do not know why they award fame to one work of art rather than another. Without being in the faintest connoisseurs, they think to justify the warmth of their commendations by discovering it in a hundred virtues, whereas the real ground of their applause is inexplicable
it is sumpathy. — Thomas Mann

But to tell the truth (to tell the truth!) I have never been particularly resolute, I mean given to resolutions, but rather inclined to plunge headlong into the shit, without knowing who was shitting against whom or on which side I had the better chance of skulking with success. — Samuel Beckett

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

People don't realize that they're being played by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, but more so by the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party does not want another party in there. — Glenn Danzig

The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line. — Thomas Hardy

Why are you drinking? - the little prince asked.
- In order to forget - replied the drunkard.
- To forget what? - inquired the little prince, who was already feeling sorry for him.
- To forget that I am ashamed - the drunkard confessed, hanging his head.
- Ashamed of what? - asked the little prince who wanted to help him.
- Ashamed of drinking! - concluded the drunkard, withdrawing into total silence.
And the little prince went away, puzzled.
'Grown-ups really are very, very odd', he said to himself as he continued his journey. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Since muscular contractions are usually more or less regularly alternated with relaxations, the system of valves makes of the veins of every muscle a very effective pump, capable of maintaining a low pressure in the muscle capillaries. — August Krogh

I'm about to be shot 150 feet up in the air. I feel queasy! — Isaac

All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive. — Madame De Stael

Home at last, and my little ranch house looks mighty plain, but it is home to me and I am glad to see it. — Nancy E. Turner