Shimohira Tools Quotes & Sayings

Breath was everything. When nothing else could be done: one could breathe and shape and infuse that breath with strength and purpose. — Karen Marie Moning

Optimism.. is the enemy of the rational buyer — Warren Buffett

One morning after a beautiful fall of snow, I had reason to write a letter to an acquaintance, but I omitted to make any mention of the snow. I was delighted when she responded, 'Do you expect me to pay any attention to the words of someone so perverse that he fails to enquire how I find this snowy landscape? What deplorable insensitivity! — Yoshida Kenko

Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets
they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away. — May Sarton

If you are nice, nice things happen to you. — Junior Dos Santos

Leaving the house is a big enough occasion for me, so getting on a plane and flying across the world and playing to a room full of people is just out of this world. — Courtney Barnett

One of the things that is nice about these old pastors - they were young at the time - who went into the Middle West is that they were real humanists. They were often linguists, for example, and the schools that they established were then, as they are now, real liberal arts colleges where people studied the humanities in a very broad sense. I think that should be reflected in his mind; appropriately, it is. — Marilynne Robinson

Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. — Ursula K. Le Guin

We feel it's unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is. — Gwyneth Paltrow

Mia: Where do their other things go? Like mobile phones and all the music on ipods? I imagine mountains of phones. Songs forgotten in clouds. — A J Betts

Produce great men, the rest follows. — Walt Whitman

Most SF is about madness, or what is currently ruled to be madness; this is part of its attraction - it's always playing with how much the human mind can encompass. — Brian Aldiss

The Russian technique for infecting water supplies was particularly ingenious." Back — Aldous Huxley

It is too easy to be ignored in this world,
so you've gotta put yourself up front
if you want to be counted, and to count. — David Levithan