Takakazu Abe Quotes & Sayings

I usually use quick sketches that I accumulated from the figure drawing classes I once instructed. — Frank Bruno

After hearing much from his patients about alleged faith-healing, a Minnesota physician named William Nolen spent a year and a half trying to track down the most striking cases. Was there clear medical evidence that the disease was really present before the 'cure'? If so, had the disease actually disappeared after the cure, or did we just have the healer's or the patient's say-so? He uncovered many cases of fraud, including the first exposure in America of 'psychic surgery'. But he found not one instance of cure of any serious organic (non-psychogenic) disease. There were no cases where gallstones or rheumatoid arthritis, say, were cured, much less cancer or cardiovascular disease. When a child's spleen is ruptured, Nolen noted, perform a simple surgical operation and the child is completely better. But take that child to a faith-healer and she's dead in a day. — Carl Sagan

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable. — Voltaire

When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you. — Sean Patrick Thomas

We're the only species that can look into the future and know that we're going to die one day, and it causes all sorts of cognitive stress on your system. — Jason Silva

'Point Break' is a movie that I and all of my friends grew up loving, watching all the time, quoting, living and being. — Luke Bracey

Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped. — Charles Bukowski

Yesterday that new lipstick made me very happy," I tell the counselor. "But today, it just doesn't seem like enough. — Shannon Olson

Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions. — John Bates Clark