Otsuka America Quotes & Sayings

How was it possible to wake up every day and be recognizable to another when so often one was barely recognizable to oneself? — Nicole Krauss

Use, do not abuse ... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. — Voltaire

Listening is the best way to complement and value others opinion. — Debasish Mridha

So far as I knew, Hallmark didn't make a "Sorry I Interrupted Your Oral Sex" card. — Joanna Wylde

Houses are like lots of Rooms stuck together, TV persons stay in them mostly but sometimes they go in their outsides and weather happens to them. — Emma Donoghue

I thought to myself, How sad to have to earn your living like that, by pretending to like everyone until you forget what it really feels like genuinely to enjoy someone's company as a friend, not just as a potential customer. Contrived emotion (What am I supposed to feel now?) replaces genuine emotion (How do I really feel about this person?) until the ability to know what you are really feeling disappears. — Harold S. Kushner

If a traveller was to feel personally involved with (rather than guiltily obedient towards) 'the walls and ceilings of the church decorated with nineteenth-century frescoes and paintings ... ', he or she would have to be able to connect these facts
as boring as a fly
with one of the large, blunt questions to which genuine curiosity must be anchored. — Alain De Botton

The American independent cinema is as formulaic as Hollywood and one genre is what you might call the 'inaction movie'. The setting is invariably a decaying town in a regional backwater where a catalytic stranger or returning native meets up with a group of sad, eccentric outsiders. — Philip French