Takemura Torrance Quotes & Sayings

He kept his head down and slowly worked himself, word by word, back into communion with the other hours, days, years - there was in fact no name for this particular unit of time - that together formed a continuum of unawareness that was as close to transcendence ash e would come. He was working himself, as if with a spade in a tunnel that finally yields to light, out of the physical world. — Joshua Ferris

I never let the thought of failure enter my mind. My knowledge of my unity with the Universal One and the fact that I must do this thing, and the inspired belief I should do it as a demonstration of my belief in man's unlimited power, made me ignore the difficulties that lay in the way. — Walter Russell

Did I really want to call myself Swiss if it meant shutting the door on less "perfect" residents? — Clare O'Dea

It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye. — David Ogilvy

You didn't miss anything in math, he says, and I recognize a Kent McFuller babble coming on. — Lauren Oliver

The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team. — Lamar Odom

We are shocked and saddened by Bob Casale's passing. He not only was integral in DEVO's sound, he worked over twenty years at Mutato, collaborating with me on sixty or seventy films and television shows, not to mention countless commercials and many video games. Bob was instrumental in creating the sound of projects as varied as Rugrats and Wes Anderson's films. He was a great friend. I will miss him greatly. — Mark Mothersbaugh

World wars have been fought and lost; for every war is against the world and every war against the world is lost. — Alice Walker

Good music is good music. — Gretchen Wilson

The public generally can only ejaculate in amazement. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Infinite Goodness has such wide arms that it takes whatever turns to it. — Dante Alighieri

When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade. — Jack McBrayer

Children are the keys of paradise. — Eric Hoffer

I didn't want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all.
In no time, what I wished for, I became. — Alice Hoffman

My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don't have sex - ever. Now that the milk is free, we've both become lactose intolerant. — Margaret Cho