Okochi Denjiro Quotes & Sayings

Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends. — Abraham Cowley

Even if he doesn't eat, he knows the cookies. I'll bet his mother stuffed him full as a kid. (Tory)
Not really. My mom wasn't the Betty Crocker kind. (Acheron)
(Not unless it involved napalm or plagues.) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

So which guideline should a writer follow, "Avoid elegant variation" or "Don't use a word twice on one page"? Traditional style guides don't resolve the contradiction, but psycholinguistics can help. Wording should not be varied capriciously, because in general people assume that if someone uses two different words they're referring to two different things. And as we shall soon see, wording should never be varied when a writer is comparing or contrasting two things. But wording should be varied when an entity is referred to multiple times in quick succession and repeating the name would sound monotonous or would misleadingly suggest that a new actor had entered the scene. — Steven Pinker

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure. — Winston Churchill

Photos should suggest a word(s) and vice versa. They should be equal and interchangeable. — John Baldessari

A goddess of dawn
scooted under a zing of barbed wire
to witness your birth. — Yusef Komunyakaa

Steve Carell, we've been nodding at each other for years now. — Jane Lynch

There is nothing I love more than helping someone realize how corrupt our food system is and them making great changes in their own life because of it. — Kristin Cavallari

For everything that God desires to do in the earth, He enters into partnership with those to whom He has already given dominion. — Myles Munroe

The young doe, Marena, said, In this very hour many of us are going to die. Perhaps I shall be one of them. — Felix Salten

Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within. — Steven Pressfield

I wanted to be able to live in the world so that I could live with myself. I wanted to do something practical to relieve the suffering of others, while at the same time striving to understand the circumstances of such suffering. — James Orbinski

Read widely (in and outside of your own genre), keep a notebook with you at all times. Do something that scares you every now and then. Try to locate your own frequency, knowing that one year your voice is on AM 532 and the next it's on FM 92.8. — Matthea Harvey

Art, like Nature, has her monsters — Oscar Wilde