Rikugien Quotes & Sayings

When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones? — Milan Kundera

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it. — Beverly Cleary

By the end of the interview, George and I had clicked....I mean, we weren't BFF's spray-painting hearts and our initials on freeway underpasses or anything. But we seemed to understand each other. — Christopher Paul Meyer

Lord help me take the knife out of my back and not place it on my tongue. — Brenda DeMoss Lanz

My dreams inspire imagination, and my imagination inspires me to create. — Diane Tanner

The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Any game you play, you got to lose sometime. — Roy Acuff

I always try to stay as quiet as possible about a book until it's finished. — Kevin Brockmeier

Every child should be taught to expect success — Orison Swett Marden

Whenever I don't' have to wear makeup, it's a good day. — Cameron Diaz

The language of soul ... possesses a pronounced lyrical quality which is frequently incompatible to any music other than that ceaseless and relentlessly driving rhythm that flows from poignantly spent ideas. — Claude Brown

I'm trying to cause people to be interested in the particulars of their lives because I think that's one thing literature can do for us. It can say to us: pay attention. Pay closer attention. Pay stricter attention to what you say to your son. — Richard Ford

'Batman Begins' came out and it was really successful, and it had gritty naturalism. And suddenly ... I can't tell you how many movies I was pitched where it was, 'We want to do what you did with 'Batman' but with 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' or whatever. — David S.Goyer