Takigawa Eiji Quotes & Sayings

Please, let me explain why I have spoken about things that should never be discussed, and which I will never mention again. "Martha — Anita Diamant

There is the mind itself. It is like a smooth lake which when struck, say by a stone, vibrates. The vibrations gather together and react on the stone, and all through the lake they will spread and be felt. The mind is like the lake; it is constantly being set in vibrations, which leave an impression on the mind; and the idea of the Ego, or personal self, the "I", is the result of these impressions. This "I" therefore is only the very rapid transmission of force and is in itself no reality. — Swami Vivekananda

I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part. I'm not necessarily proud to be female. I am not even proud to be human - I only love to be so. — Zadie Smith

It's easier to be angry. It's harder to be positive and happy, I reckon. — Courtney Barnett

I feel that I'm an essayist and that my best work gets done in that form. I wanted to do a book where the essays could exist on their own terms. A book that was neither a book of essays that were shoehorned into a memoir, nor [one where] the essays had been published elsewhere first, [because] then they would kind of bear the marks of those publications. — Meghan Daum

Happiness changes the way you see the world. — Auliq Ice

I'm a lady, and I run my business with dignity. I don't need to be tough. You get nowhere screaming. — Ivana Trump

To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage. — James A. Baldwin

But we're going to smile and pretend we're fine with the dorky birthmas gifts because people do not get that they can't mush a birthday into christmas. — P.C. Cast

The Industrial Revolution is primarily a virus revolution, dedicated to proliferation of identical objects and persons. You are making soap, you don't give a shit who buys your soap, the more the soapier. — William S. Burroughs

The highest and noblest work in this life is that of a mother. — Russell M. Nelson

Like most of us, I determined that I'd rather be a large part of the problem than a small part of the solution. — Kinky Friedman

You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.' — Florence Welch

Bosons, by the way, are named for the Indian scientist Satyendra Nath Bose. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's. — Friedrich Schiller