Tokiko Ohniwa Quotes & Sayings

At Odessa we became Texans, and proud of it. — George H. W. Bush

You know what it was like? It was like thinking I was heading to a surprise party and instead it was a surprise pap smear. — Jen Lancaster

I pray that we bring the sound of heaven to earth — Darlene Zschech

The brass ball spun furiously round his pole. "Ooh, I'll bet you scribble in the margins, don't you? You fiend! You devil! I can see it in your beady little non-spectacled eyes! You're just the type of monster who uses an innocent book to prop open a door or straighten a table with a wobbly leg. Or maybe you only read magazines? Savage!"
"Oh, get off yourself," barked Blunderbuss. "I've eaten more books than you've shelved in your whole weird pinball life and I enjoyed every last one, thanks very much."
"EATEN?!" screeched the brass ball. — Catherynne M Valente

The second role of a mentor is encouragement. Mentors lead us to believe that we can achieve something that seemed improbable or impossible to us before we met them. They don't allow us to succumb to self-doubt for too long, or the notion that our dreams are too large for us. They stand by to remind us of the skills we already possess and what we can achieve if we continue to work hard. — Ken Robinson

But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does. — Reed Hastings

People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances. — Jeremy Collier

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality. — Marc Webb

Hast comes not alone. — George Herbert

The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent. — Seneca The Younger

Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast. — George William Russell