Takitani Scholarship Quotes & Sayings

People grow up listening to all kinds of stories, but that doesn't mean they all want to spend their whole lives studying them. — Amy Reed

The genetic stage of a gene pool can be identified by the personality characteristics of the local God. Jehovah of Genesis is a low-level barbarian macho punk God. He boastfully claims to have created the heaven and the stars and the world, but provides no technical details or replicable blueprints. His preoccupations, whims, anxieties, jealousies, rules and hatred of women are primitive mammalian brain. His petty prides are primate. — Timothy Leary

The only way to cure an obsession is to become obsessed with something else. — Leah Raeder

Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us! — Cornelia Funke

A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can't be how the universe works."

"In the Order we call it 'inverse profundity.' We've observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets. — Lev Grossman

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength. — Winston Churchill

But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it. — Richie Benaud

The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this. — Yann Arthus-Bertrand

It's not the side-effects of the cocaine - I'm thinking that it must be love.
It's too late to be grateful,
It's too late to be hateful,
It's too late to be late again,
The European cannon is here. — David Bowie

Fate has me highly skilled and loaded with talent. — Vince Vaughn

Microsoft fears Intel is eventually going to create its own operating system and optimize its chips for its own OS, cutting Microsoft out of the picture. Kind of like what Microsoft allegedly does to people who write applications for Windows ... — John C. Dvorak

A sincere acquaintance with ourselves teaches us humility; and from humility springs that benevolence which compassionates the transgressors we condemn, and prevents the punishments we inflict from themselves partaking of crime, in being rather the wreakings of revenge than the chastisements of virtue. — Jane Porter

The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms. — Richelle Mead

Estelle Getty used the language of a truck driver, or a sailor. Bea Arthur didn't wear shoes. Bea Arthur was a comic genius. Her timing was extraordinary. — Leland Orser

People fear what they don't understand and hate what they can't conquer. — Andrew Smith