Takiko Okuda Quotes & Sayings

I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree. — John Burroughs

I've known Carolyn [Maloney] for years, by the way. I knew her when she was on the City Council and knew her when she was - when she was running, and we endorsed her very early when she ran for Congress, yet I didn't know some of the stories in here of herself and her struggle, and - and she makes a very - you know, it's - it pulls your heart as well as - but it's very practical. — Eleanor Smeal

-it's the d-isomer of a compound, the name of which won't mean anything to you-
-oh, yeah? how do you know it won't mean nothing to me?
-three-methoxy-n-methylmorphinan
-you're right. don't mean a dam thing to me — Patricia Cornwell

He would start it, I think, at the gate of Millbank, the point that every visitor must pass when they arrive to make their tour of the gaols. — Sarah Waters

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend. — Agatha Christie

You say that I'm nobody, and you agree that nobody's perfect.
Based on logic, I'm a perfect person according to your opinion. — Toba Beta

As far as 'Windup Girl' becoming a hit - none of us expected that. 'Night Shade' was just hoping not to lose their shirts, and I had grown up hearing from everyone that science fiction didn't sell, so all of our expectations were very low. — Paolo Bacigalupi

The backpackers are back on the bandwagon like this was my comeback season back, back in the day — Drake

the poem.
the one that is running through
your life.
pay attention.
to that poem. — Nayyirah Waheed

My parents were travelers. Every time my parents got ten dollars ahead they went somewhere. That's what they did. So I got the bug from them. — Pam Houston