Shimaizuma Quotes & Sayings

The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it. — Mark Twain

For a while I didn't have a car ... I had a helicopter ... no place to park it, so I just tied it to a lamp post and left it running. [slow glance upward] — Steven Wright

What is detestable in a pig is more detestable in a boy. — Charles Dickens

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away. — Oriah Mountain Dreamer

I've lived three lifetimes in my short time. — Fran Drescher

Follow your heart, but don't lose your mind along the way. — Zack W. Van

Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living. — Lebbeus Woods

How do you always know just what to say?" I ask.
His laugh rumbles through me. "Practice, I guess."
I pull back and give him a quizzical look.
"I spent three years imagining what I would say to you if you were mine," he says, tugging me close.
"I should hope I know what to say now that I've got you. — Tera Lynn Childs

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power ... — Ethan Canin

I'm not very precious at all, which I think people find surprising. — William Monahan

Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river? — Frederick Carl Frieseke

Railroads have eaten up all the capital and covered Russia like spiderwebs, so that perhaps in another fifteen years or so one may even be able to take a ride somewhere. Bridges burn only rarely, while towns burn down regularly, in established order, by turns, during the fire seasons. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots. — Mark Twain

My true love is history, but I didn't know how I could make a living at it. — Robert Zoellick

Christianity has always looked on sex as in some way indecent and sinful; and for that reason Christians cannot possibly associate a truly religious nature 'with an unsuppressed libido. But that is more than a prejudice.' — Lewis Browne