Shizuoka Prefecture Quotes & Sayings

A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one. — Honore De Balzac

I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional characters, it doesn't bode well for the poor things. There are too many Judes and Tesses and Clarissas and Cordelias around. If we must name our children after literary figures then we should search out happy ones, although it's true they are much harder to find. — Kate Atkinson

The psychiatrists say that everybody should have a hobby. The hobby I recommend is advertising — David Ogilvy

No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything. — Victor Hugo

The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home. — Dick Gregory

People always starve themselves, and then they get hungry, and then they eat the wrong things, like chips or cookies or whatever they can grab. — Heidi Klum

Kings kill; jesters don't; therefore the jesters of the kings are more valuable than the kings! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I think each book sort of finds its own theme as it goes on. 'Warded Man' was fear. 'Desert Spear' was exploration of the other. 'Daylight War' was relationships. Some of this is intentional, and some of it evolves naturally. The series as a whole is obviously something I have given a lot of thought to, but each book is its own animal as well. — Peter V. Brett

Our Intuition is the beacon that guides us to peace, and navigates us through the treacherous Karmic waters. — Kim Chestney