Oshimas Kona Quotes & Sayings

Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward. — Mencius

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism. — Bette Davis

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. — Ashley Jade

Copland was the first important American classical composer to go to work for Hollywood. — Terry Teachout

The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre. I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and, by inference, in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome, and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure, under his showing, by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But, when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans, and to Boston, it somehow failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learn about the light and science. The magic will happen. — Fil Hunter

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them. — Henry De Montherlant

As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance. — Alexander McCall Smith

Why will people be so stupid as to suppose themselves the only foreigners among a crowd of ten thousand persons? — Mark Twain

More men die of jealousy than of cancer. — Joseph P. Kennedy

But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed? How has it happened that all the fine arts, architecture, painting, sculpture, statuary, music, poetry, and oratory, have been prostituted, from the creation of the world, to the sordid and detestable purposes of superstition and fraud?
[Letter to judge F.A. Van der Kamp, December 27, 1816.] — John Adams