Tadahiro Fujino Quotes & Sayings

The future is all around here.' It's a place, anyplace where we don't exist. — Rae Armantrout

Sri Lankans of every kind, overwhelmingly the poorest, have been bombed by one side or the other for decades. — Romesh Gunesekera

We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare. — Arthur Machen

I know the questions will be around the money, the amount Chelsea had to spend to bring him here but that's the reality of modern football. Big teams only want big players, big players are in big clubs, big clubs want to keep their big players. — Jose Mourinho

I've always been happy just to be working. It doesn't really matter for me how many people are familiar with my name or my picture, or whatever. — Michael Shannon

Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler. — Agnes Repplier

Well, as a short-story writer, I don't think there are any weaknesses to the genre itself. I guess I would say that the difficulty of the form is that one must create an entire world in five to 30 pages, as opposed to 300. There is very little room for fat - you must be economical. And you must begin as close to the end as you possibly can. — ZZ Packer

Denial itself was institutionalized as a government function. Since 1923, the Turkish government has spent tens of millions of dollars in a concerted disinformation campaign to delude the world at large and, perhaps more important, its own people. — Eric Bogosian

If women were the equals of men, men would no longer equal themselves. Why then should women resemble what men would have ceased to be? — Christine Delphy

Though I said art sure no craven vastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore, tell me why thy lordly name is on the nigts plutonium shore, quoth the raven never more — Edgar Allan Poe

His own exclamation: "Women should be free - as free as we are," struck to the root of a problem that it was agreed in his world to regard as nonexistent. "Nice" women, however wronged, would never claim the kind of freedom he meant, and generous-minded men like himself were therefore - in the heat of argument - the more chivalrously ready to concede it to them. Such verbal generosities were in fact only a humbugging disguise of the inexorable conventions that tied things together and bound people down to the old pattern. — Edith Wharton

Rome wasn't built in a day, except in Lego Land — Josh Stern

When you fight for someone you love, fight and fight, don't give up, until you can't fight anymore. — Gail McHugh

There is a glorious candor in an honest quart of wine,
A certain inspitation which I cannot well define. — Eugene Field

I'm really disturbed by the degree to which I don't hear people saying, "Are we leaving the world better than we found it?" I think we are a generation that perhaps could not answer in the affirmative, and it is the evasion of the larger responsibility of being only one generation in what one hopes will be an infinite series of fruitful generations. There is a selfishness in refusing to understand that we are passing through; others will come, and they deserve certain courtesies and certain considerations from us. — Marilynne Robinson