Takahisa Taura Quotes & Sayings

Understanding wasn't always necessary, as long as you believed. — Dean Koontz

When I was taking art history I was always angry that we would skip certain chapters because "it wasn't important." Like, "Let's skip over the Japanese. Let's just get to Giotto, because that's where everything begins." It's like, no. Everything is relevant to me. — Ali Banisadr

Death is not an end. It is a new impulse. — Henry Ward Beecher

Some people are serial entrepreneurs and want to just move on to the next thing. They just want to clean the slate and start from scratch. I feel that sometimes, too, and the way that we do that here is we build things inside Shutterstock: we launch new products all the time. — Jon Oringer

Events fall into a pattern that we can only discern retrospectively. We credit ourselves with far more agency than we actually possess. Things happen because they happen. — Neel Mukherjee

In the end, it doesn't really matter what you paint. It's all just a routine to connect yourself finally with other people. — Chris Ofili

Almost instantly [after my announcement of Parkinson's], I saw the first couple of days the coverage was about, you know, "Fox's Parkinson's, blah, blah, blah." Then, two days after that, I saw the coverage turn. It started to become, "Can young people get Parkinson's?" All of a sudden, the conversation turned to become about that. And that was one of the first eye-opening things. — Michael J. Fox

Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It's a schizophrenic business. — Robert Mykle

If they had the ordinary amount of good luck. Which didn't seem to be the trend at the moment. — Orson Scott Card

Most likely, they were writing the same type of macho bullshit that I wrote, trying to sound tough with their words in case words were all that made it home. — Clint Van Winkle