Satoko Quotes & Sayings

Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind. — Joseph Campbell

A lot of actors just do whatever they do, and wherever the camera is, it is. They don't pay much attention, but I always did. I was always very close to the camera crew. They were my best buddies, no matter what movie or show I was doing. — Donna Mills

We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

You know what happens to me! — Satoshi Kon

The Homestead plant, taken as a whole, is complete and finished in every department. There is nothing of any consequence to be desired. It is the first time I have ever been connected with any works that I could say it is finished and complete and to my entire satisfaction. — Charles M. Schwab

She saw what lurked beneath his pleasant, confident exterior: a network of thorns in the shape of a man, a thing that wore him like a suit. — Max Gladstone

Kiyo, what would you do if all of a sudden I weren't here any more?' Satoko asked, her words coming in a rushed whisper.
This was a long-standing trick of Satoko's for disconcerting people. Perhaps she achieved her effects without conscious effort, but she never allowed the slightest hint of mischief into her tone to put her victim at ease. Her voice would be heavy with pathos at such times, as though confiding the gravest of secrets.
Although he should have been inured to this by now, Kiyoaki could not help asking: 'Not here any more? Why?'
Despite all his efforts to indicate a studied disinterest, Kiyoaki's reply betrayed his uneasiness. It was what Satoko wanted.
'I can't tell you why,' she answered, deftly dropping ink into the clear waters of Kiyoaki's heart ... — Yukio Mishima

Somewhere along the way these countries [EU] redefined the relationship between government and citizen into something closer to pusher and addict. And, once you've done that, it's very hard to persuade the addict to cut back his habit. Thus, the general acceptance everywhere but America is that the state should run your health care. A citizen of an advanced democracy expects to be able to choose from dozens of breakfast cereals, hundreds of movies at the video store, and millions of porno sites on the Internet, but when it comes to life-or-death decisions about his own body he's happy to have the choice taken out of his hands and given to the government. — Mark Steyn

If a group of people has no sense where they came from-it is difficult for them to have a sense where they should go. — Lester Thurow

I started writing after the death of my grandfather - memories, poems, etc. It was very personal; for years I did not share my writing with anyone. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I may sound very cynical, but a cynic is really a realist. — U.G. Krishnamurti

The poems in Helena Mesa's virtuosic first book, Horse Dance Underwater, run with such speed, verve, and alacrity they leave you breathless, exhilarated, and transformed as if the purest kind of song had lifted you into the air. By this quickness of language finding lyric speech, Mesa's poems remind us of art's joyous and ecstatic effects. — Michael Collier

I've had a few intense arguments with my boss who happens to be the object of my sexual fantasies. — J.L. McCoy

We particularly like people who value us highly. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

All of this caused Kiyoaki constant pain. In comparison with Satoko's public humiliation, however, he did not even have a slighting remark to contend with. And however acute his private agony, it was, after all, the torment of a coward. — Yukio Mishima

If your mind keeps telling you that something's wrong, believe it ... something is — Timothy Pina

Because we call ourselves Christians, our actions need to reflect Christ, — Clayton Kershaw