Otani Quotes & Sayings

In short, software is eating the world. — Marc Andreessen

Is this why you think you are chosen by God, because only you can understand the funnies that you make about yourself? — Jonathan Safran Foer

Haruka: I was waiting out front, but you never came. So I came looking for you. And sure enough you're in the midget's clutches!

Otani: This isn't a B-movie, it's a school where you aren't a student! — Aya Nakahara

Its easy to protest, even a child protests...the hardest part is understanding the 'why and what to protest. — Victor Truth

Risa: I love you!
Otani: I know.
Risa: And ... you love me too, right, Otani?
Otani: Yeah.
Crowd: *cheers* Good job, buddy!
Risa and Otani: AHHHHH! *runs away* — Atsushi Otani

When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are. — Ian Hacking

Does he even know that little things he says and does, like that make me really happy or really depressed? It always seems like I'm ruled by him, never the other way around. Does Otani ever feel ruled by the things I say or do? — Aya Nakahara

Nakao: Koizumi, I'm so sorry I said such cruel things.
Otani: What's that?
Nakao: The whispering of your heart. — Heikichi Nakao Otani

Along the open road on winter nights, homeless, cold, and hungry, one voice gripped my frozen heart: 'Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don't know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.' In the morning my eyes were so vacant and my face so dead, that the people I met may not even have seen me.

In cities, mud went suddenly red and black, like a mirror when a lamp in the next room moves, like treasure in the forest! Good luck, I cried, and I saw a sea of flames and smoke rise to heaven; and left and right, all wealth exploded like a billion thunderbolts. — Arthur Rimbaud

There are things that can be fixed with an apology and things that can't. — Otani Lovely Complex

Oh no! This is bad. I think my heart was just stolen a little — Atsushi Otani

Otani: Oh no. This is bad.
Risa: What?
Otani: I ... I seem to like you much more than I realized. — Atsushi Otani

We have a definition in our heads of what an advantage is - and the definition isn't right. And what happens as a result? It means that we make mistakes. — Malcolm Gladwell

I've never invested in any airline. I'm an airline manager. I don't invest in airlines. And I always said to the employees of American, 'This is not an appropriate investment. It's a great place to work and it's a great company that does important work. But airlines are not an investment.' — Robert Crandall

Rimbaud held the keys to a mystical language that I devoured even as I could not fully decipher it. My unrequited love for him was as real to me as anything I had experienced. At the factory where I had labored with a hard-edged, illiterate group of women, I was harassed in his name. Suspecting me of being a Communist for reading a book in a foreign language, they threatened me in the john, prodding me to denounce him. It was within this atmosphere that I seethed. It was for him that I wrote and dreamed. He became my archangel, delivering me from the mundane horrors of factory life. His hands had chiseled a manual of heaven and I held them fast. The knowledge of him added swagger to my step and this could not be stripped away. I tossed my copy of Illuminations in a plaid suitcase. We would escape together. — Patti Smith

Amid all that blood of the dying sun, the verde was still alive. — Alaya Dawn Johnson

The sunken grave would fade away, probably in my lifetime. If I could avoid killer zombies for a few years. And vampires. And gun-toting humans. Oh, hell, the hot-spot would probably outlast me. — Laurell K. Hamilton

She descended the steps two at a time, pushed away the gloom and counted the cracks in the cobbled road, trying to block out the cold and the stench of dishonesty bred in men. — Sharon Robards

I believe love is bittersweet, especially young love. — Aurora Guerrero