Tohno Akiha Quotes & Sayings

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do. — Wilferd Peterson

Over the years, he [Everett Dirksen] developed a style of infinitely subtle fustian, whose effect can still be remotely approximated by sipping twelve-year-old bourbon, straight, while reading Dickens aloud, in a sort of sepulchral purr. — Lance Morrow

I wanted to know if she fucked the way she seemed to live - full of passion and fierce energy. — Nina Levine

Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world. — Iris Murdoch

The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab engine in what Europeans like to call a performance car when a little American V-8 could do the job better. — Carroll Shelby

I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street. — Talib Kweli

Your home should tell the story of who you are, and be a collection of what you love brought together under one roof. — Nate Berkus

He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal, class-obsessed small people, they were really rather good fun. — John Connolly

Every new day is a once in a lifetime event. How much more exciting would our lives be if we embraced this truth and lived accordingly?! — Steve Maraboli

The catch was this: Power always involved loss of humanity. — Jodi Picoult

No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them. — Aldo Leopold

The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors. — John Updike

I don't want the national award ... I seriously do not need any such thing. I would only want the audience to go and watch the film once and that will be more than enough for me. Once everybody should see the movie and say it is a good watch. — Kareena Kapoor

My talent was the uncompromising ability to feel spite. — Natsuo Kirino

sugar, if you ain't on speaking terms with The Lord, what right you got to ask Him to help you out? — Bette Lee Crosby