Tanizaki Junichiro Quotes & Sayings

Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves — Niccolo Machiavelli

Paper tigers quake with fear when a real tiger enters the room. — Beau Johnston

I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again. — Joan Rivers

What we do when defeat stares us in the face is the real touchstone of character. But the very fact that success has time and again proved the means of awakening people to the knowledge of greater ability than they ever before dreamed they possessed, ought to hearten and encourage us to keep on no matter how often we fail. If we brace ourselves and continue to push forward we will ultimately win out. (From Everybody ahead, or getting the most out of life) — Orison Swett Marden

It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are. — Wanda Sykes

He hoped he would live through this, but he was willing to die, if that was what it took to be alive. And, for a moment he thought that the whole thing was funny, just the funniest thing in the world; — Neil Gaiman

Sometimes you're about as funny as a busted condom. — Mark Coggins

All Things Unfold As They Should — Joshua Armstrong

Utilitarianism is a civilization of production and of use, a civilization of "things" and not of "persons," a civilization in which persons are used in the same way as things are used. In the context of a civilization of use, woman can become an object for man, children a hindrance to parents, the family an institution obstructing the freedom of its members. — Pope John Paul II

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. — Arthur Helps

If you told my 13-year-old self that one day I'd be talking about how Tom Cruise and I had good chemistry, she'd think you were completely mad. — Rosamund Pike

My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it. — Vikas Swarup

When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter. — Julia Cameron