Taketo Tanaka Quotes & Sayings

And why do you ask what can't be answered? What's the use of such foolish questions? How could it depend on my decision? Who has made me the judge to decide who ought to live and out ought not to live? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.' — Nicole Kidman

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear. — B.F. Skinner

When I go to a show, all I really want is to hear a performance that sounds legitimate, and not just going through the motions. I'm not sure any amount of jumping up and down really persuades me in either direction. — Dan Bejar

Trevor cupped his hands around it, felt Zach's heartbeat throbbing between his palms. The skin of the shaft was textured, slightly rippled beneath the surface. The head was as smooth as satin, as rose petals. Trevor rubbed his thumb across it, squeezed gently, heard Zack suck air in through his teeth and moan as he let it out. He could see blood suffusing the tissue just beneath the translucent skin, a deep dusky rose delicately purpled at the edges, crowned with a single dewy pearl of come. It was as intimate, as raw as holding someone's heart in his hands. — Poppy Z. Brite

Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes. — Tom Robbins

The only direction Obama has the economy moving is backward. — Bob Beauprez

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it. — Billie Holiday

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family. — Michael Enzi

Even people who believe they deserve to be happy and have nice things often don't feel worthy once they have them. — Oprah Winfrey

Have you ever been to a picnic? And someone blows up a balloon, and everyone starts tossing it around, and it's always just about to touch the ground, but someone always gets there just in time to tap it back up? That balloon, that's God, the very best in all of us, the kindness, the heavy petting, Funny Girl! ... Evil bores me. It's just one note. It doesn't sing! Oh, of course life sucks! It always will. So why not make the most of it? — Paul Rudnick

It only seems impossible until it's done. — Nelson Mandela