Shunichi Tanabe Quotes & Sayings

The space between the young reader's eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.' — Terry Pratchett

Sometimes I can't tell if you hate this place or love it."
"I love its potential. I hate its past. And I don't like what it is." She hugs her knees close to her chest. "The way you feel about the place you grew up in is a lot like how you feel about your family."
"How's that?"
She thinks about it for a long time. "Like isn't the same thing as love. — Robert Jackson Bennett

So there were people who got up at noon, pared their toenails, and sat naked in hotel rooms without regarding each day as an apocalypse. Amazing! If someone had burst into my room and found me naked and paring my nails, I would have died of shock. Or would I? Maybe I was stronger than I thought. — Erica Jong

You can endure every hardship with hope. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I thought, breaking into a sweat, I'd better call Saul. I owe Kate an apology ... Damn damn damn. — Mordecai Richler

To believe you're being psychically attacked gives you an understanding of your illness that no Western doctor can provide; this can be reassuring when you've exhausted the Western doctor tool kit, and the doctors are sending you to acupuncturists for pain relief. — Heidi Julavits

Your government does not exist and should not exist in order to keep you or anybody else, no matter what color, no matter what race, no matter what religion, from getting your damn fool feelings hurt. — Kurt Vonnegut

As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting. — Brian Ferneyhough

It makes sense that we came up with our public school system during the Industrial Revolution because it's like everybody is a factory worker, eating their terrible food and going back to the room where you're silent and listening to an idiot. That's an epitomizing idea, getting called 'Nothing' for your whole high school experience. — Ezra Miller

I used to get very nervous before a concert. It's okay when you are in a band. You can kind of disappear. But when it's just you ... yes, that was difficult. I would not say it is easy now. But when you do it for a long time, you do learn to cope. — Agnes Obel

She sort of had a mushroom childhood.'
'A what?'
'She was plunked down in the dark and fed a lot of bullshit. — Dana Marie Bell

We don't separate out men and women working together in corporations. — Susan Molinari

There's really no differentiation between the work I make and the world I live in. — Doug Aitken

Unpleasant things are like the rain: sometimes they visit us, but there is no point in worrying about them while the sun shines. — Andrus Kivirahk

I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19. — Mink Stole