Ootake Shinobu Quotes & Sayings

Oh. THere goes another one. Just like Achilles. — Phil

Why did becoming accustomed to something have to render its pleasures stale. — Guy Gavriel Kay

I'm in the storytelling business, and so you're always drawn to the unusual. And early on, I discovered that's the easiest way to tell stories. If you come up through a newspaper as I did, your whole goal is to get a story on the front page, and you only get something on the front page if it's unusual — Malcolm Gladwell

Every work cancels the dark. Every work is a hymn from the other side of memory to a memory that is spellbound. Beauty is death's gift to vulgar life so that it can live in beauty. — Edmond Jabes

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory. — Louise Gluck

I may go back and spice it up with a little bit of the tool stuff and grunting and all that that I know so well. But it feels like I'm rehashing old material. And some of my audiences like that. So I'm there to entertain. I'm not there to make a political statement or anything like that. I'm there to entertain. — Tim Allen

When a locked-room mystery doesn't work, the solution makes you groan, and the book gets hurled across the room. — Adrian McKinty

The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind. — Thornton T. Munger