Takashina Takakane Quotes & Sayings

It was only when you saw the suffering and the aftermath up close, lived among it, and knew that your own world and everything in it was just as vulnerable to the inferno - only then did you discover your place and your purpose. Robert Trimble had been to the abyss, and looked over the edge, and could never see anything the same way again. — Lee Trimble

I left my frogs, which I had grown, with my supervisor, who had moved to Geneva, and he and a technician grew them up. So by 1962, they were adults, and one could publish a paper to say that these animals, derived from nuclear transfer, really were absolutely normal. So it took a little time to get through. — John Gurdon

What's on your shirt?" she asked suddenly. "Darth Vader," I answered briskly. For someone who held me in such obvious contempt, she asked a lot of questions. "So you're a Trekkie." This was a statement rather than a question. I cringed. "Not exactly." "I think Star Trek is silly." "Not — James Ramos

It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity. — Seneca The Younger

Yesterday was the fucking history... the "Now" is the most vicious part of all... as for tomorrow it's the fucking mystery. — Deyth Banger

We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us. It's called the principle of favorability. Or beginner's luck. — Paulo Coelho

If there's one thing the AT teaches, it is low-level ecstasy - something we could all do with more of in our lives. — Bill Bryson

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do ... I think I'd be a good parent, actually. — Drew Barrymore

People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic. — George Bernard Shaw

You have to know yourself enough to be able to choose friends that you will be compatible with. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

For such things as you, I can scarce think there's any, ye're so slight. — William Shakespeare