Takebayashi Takeshi Quotes & Sayings

The world isn't what it once was because there aren't many men like you left. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Never before has man had such capacity to control his own environment, ... We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history or the world - or make it the last. — John F. Kennedy

You can be inspired by others, but when you're inspired from within then you have real power for change. — Sue Fitzmaurice

Ah, I understand", murmured the imperial scapegrace. Turning to the room: "When Franz Ferdinand drinks", he cried, "everybody drinks!"
Which helped restore a level of civility in the room, and soon even of cheer, as smart neckties were soaked in suds, the piano player came back from under the bar, and people in the room resumed dancing syncopated two-steps. After a while someone started singing "All Pimps Look Alike to Me", and half the room joined in. Lew, however, noticing the way the Archduke seemed to keep inching stealthily but unmistakably toward the street door, thought it wise to do the same. Sure enough, just before sliding out the door, Der F. F., with a demonic grin, screamed: "And when Franz Ferdinand pays, everybody pays!" whereupon he disappeared, and it was a near thing that Lew got out with his keester intact. — Thomas Pynchon

I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in. — Angelina Jolie

Some few have a natural talent for office-bolding; very many for office-seeking. — James Ellis

It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker. — Katy Lederer

His gentleness was uncompromising; because he would not compete for dominance, he was indomitable. — Ursula K. Le Guin