Sogabe Shuji Quotes & Sayings

Your parents are your parents. You are you. — Shuji Sogabe

Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own. — Herman Melville

A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit, and the congestion leaves the hands too cold to write. Three sorts of emotion produce great poetry - strong but quick emotions, seized upon for art as soon as they have passed, but not before they have passed ; strong and deep emotions in their remembrance along time after ; and false emotions, that is to say, emotions felt in the intellect. Not insincerity, but a translated sincerity, is the basis of all art. — Fernando Pessoa

I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders - leaders not compromised by terror. — Elliott Abrams

When you're pregnant you just want to be comfortable - but I wear more or less the same as I do when I'm not pregnant: pregnancy denim with normal tops and flat shoes. But when the belly starts to really stick out, I'll want the floaty dresses! — Alessandra Ambrosio

The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market economy. It failed to recognise that the state and public sector can become a vested interest capable of oppression as much as the vested interests of wealth and capital. it was based on a false view of class that became too rigid to explain or illuminate the nature of class division today. — Tony Blair

It's hard to live a full life without love. — Jon Jones

It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books. — E.L. Doctorow

So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts. But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. — James Madison

What was desire anyway, when examined in the clear light of day? Was it the way a woman searched for her clothes in the morning, or the manner in which a man might watch her sit before the mirror and comb her hair? Was it a pale November dawn, when ice formed on windowpanes and crows called from the bare black trees? Or was it the way a person might yield to the night, setting forth on a path so unexpected that daylight would never again be completely clear? — Alice Hoffman

When it comes to break ups:
Don't get mad ... just live a better life and forget about it! — Timothy Pina

with the passion that she had pent — Zania Summers

The challenges you are passing through today, are only preparing you for your success tomorrow". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Everything I say about [writing] battles applies equally well in the boudoir. — Chris Humphreys

One of the skills you have to master in theater is the ability to make the audience believe that things that aren't there are there - just like when you're acting against CGI. Also, in a theater, the people in the back row can't see the whites of your eyes. Or your lips moving as you deliver dialogue. — David Oyelowo

Everyone's in their own personal coma. — Chuck Palahniuk