Stylishness Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Japan is a startling clash of the deeply traditional and the spiritual. The intensely current and the superficial. It's ancient, but futuristic. Conservative, yet hedonistic. Sleek skyscrapers graze the clouds like trees seeking sun in a man-made rainforest. Their concrete foundations often fertilized by the bodies of locals run afoul of the yakuza. It's a homogenous island nation with a quaint surface and a Twin Peaks underbelly. The polite, insular, and eerily innocuous, living symbiotically with the perverse, extroverted, and bizarre. Fashion-forward and fashion-retarded. You could make similar generalizations about most cultures of course, but Japan's beautiful contrasts were better than most."--Parker Choi — Robet Jung

I would ask you to come in Khadi, for Khadi links you with the fallen and the down-trodden. — Mahatma Gandhi

Under the new conditions of perfect comfort and security, that restless energy, that with us is strength, would become weakness. — H.G.Wells

The harried Lincoln made clear to Sumner that he believed compromise would simply open the door for further demands and more concessions: "Give them personal liberty bills, and they will pull in the slack, hold on, and insist on the border-state compromises. Give them that, they'll again pull in the slack and demand Crittenden's compromise. That pulled in, they will want all that South Carolina asks." He "would sooner go out into his backyard and hang himself." Then Lincoln punctuated his resolve with a down-home pledge: "By no act or complicity of mine shall the Republican party become a mere sucked egg, all shell and no principle in it. — Harold Holzer

Your brain activates a magnificent system to store memories as reference points for you to learn from ... not to create a past for you to be stuck in. — Steve Maraboli

According to the statistics, a man eats a prune every twenty seconds. I don't know who this fellow is, but I know where to find him. — Morey Amsterdam

The next best thing after finishing writing a chapter is starting a new one. — Chris Almeida

He's British. He's addicted to waving his long stick around. He has a superb sweater collection. — Brittainy C. Cherry

Hope is the Word which God has written on the brow of every man. — Victor Hugo

No man is perfect but God is. What do you think? — Koyel Mitra