Takakura Miki Quotes & Sayings

There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put pressure on current notions of accessible (and acceptable) narrative methods. To thrive and change and grow, any art needs this kind of pressure. — Joanna Scott

I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison. — Bell Hooks

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done. — Matthew Arnold

I was a little bit chubby when I was a kid. — Dexter Scott King

I think a lot of times when people talk about merchants, it's almost a nostalgic look back at the time where the world moved at a very different pace, and information was very different. — Edward Lampert

Never underestimate a girl's love for her favorite band. Never think even for a minute, that she won't defend them to her death. Because it's not just the music that makes that band her favorite. It's the guys, the gals. It's the fans. People whom of which she has interacted with thanks to the band. That band might of saved her life, or just made her smile everyday. That band has never broke her heart and has yet to leave her. No wonder she finds such joy in her music. — Alex Gaskarth

Sanity is a valuable possession. — Margaret Atwood

For thousands of years what men has done to women is simply monstrous. She cannot think of herself as equal as man. & she has been conditioned so deeply that even if u say she is equal, she is not going to believe it. It has become almost her mind, the conditioning has become her mind, that she is less in everithing. & the man who has reduced the women to such a state also cannot love her. LOVE CAN EXIST ONLY IN EQUALITY, IN FRIENDSHIP — Osho

What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world. — Iris Murdoch

What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.' — Halle Berry

We're connected by millions of shared experiences and dreams and nightmares, all tied together with compassion. — Laura Anderson Kurk

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves. — Samuel Johnson