Sayuri Quotes & Sayings

The China Rich seem to be spending on a scale that's just beyond anything we've ever seen before. They are building and buying an insane amount of luxury residences around the world, commissioning huge flying palaces from Boeing, and paying ridiculous amounts for art. — Kevin Kwan

Anyhow, isn't it a bit wrong to think happiness is all smooth and serene. Isn't it mostly a great energetic struggle - you against the universe - a great whopping opponent, with the referee in its pocket? — Margaret Mahy

I don't want to work all of the time. — Penelope Ann Miller

Nature and Passion are powerful, but they are also full of grief. True happiness would have the calm and order of bourgeois routine without its utilitarian ignobility and boredom. — W. H. Auden

Are you telling me we're fling into Jupiter?"

"No, we'll probably crash into Io first," Shirosaki said.

"The thought of diving head first into a sea of magma doesn't exactly turn me on. — Sayuri Ueda

Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper. a — Arthur Golden

Gratitude is the confidence in life itself ... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in our own good fortune and in the good fortune of others ... We can be joyful for people we love, for moments of goodness, for sunlight and trees, and for the very breath within our lungs. Like an innocent child, we can rejoice in life itself, in being alive. — Jack Kornfield

Maybe journey is not so much a journey ahead, or a journey into space, but a journey into presence. — Nelle Morton

Nothing about the practice of modern science is obvious to someone who has never seen it done. — Steven Weinberg

But our own selves are like pearls, created by layer after layer of present laid over past until the original thing is completely hidden. — Tad Williams

It's personalities, it's conflict, it's all of these things that actually make performers interesting. — Simon Cowell

He's a politician, Tomas; he looks at every situation as to how it will benefit himself, and cares little of the cost to others." "You — Jan Stryvant

My interpreter Sayuri is folding a piece of notebook paper. She is at step 21, where the crane's body is inflated. The directions show a tiny puff besides an arrow pointing at the bird. It makes sense if you already know what to do. Otherwise, it's wonderfully surreal: Put a cloud inside a bird. — Mary Roach

Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself. — Publilius Syrus

Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away. — Arthur Golden