Tokujiro Nishi Quotes & Sayings

As a pauper, the obvious destination for James Tilly Matthews was the Bethlem Hospital, already long known in popular slang as Bedlam. The principal public asylum in London, it had accepted dangerous and insane paupers as 'objects of charity' for centuries, and was proud of the claim that it had never turned anyone away. — Mike Jay

Reviewers, critics, guest editors... Such people may have an eye for literary conventions and contrivances, allusions and innovations on the art. But what are their tastes based on? Do they tend to choose work that most resembles theirs? — Amy Tan

Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself — Baz Luhrmann

So tired am I, so weary of to-day,
So unrefreshed from foregone weariness,
So overburdened by foreseen distress,
So lagging and so stumbling on my way,
I scarce can rouse myself to watch or pray,
To hope, or aim, or toil for more or less,--
Ah, always less and less, even while I press
Forward and toil and aim as best I may.
Half-starved of soul and heartsick utterly,
Yet lift I up my heart and soul and eyes
Which fail in looking upward — Christina Rossetti

I hadn't been there ten minutes before there were three turds on the carpet. — Helen Fielding

To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport. — Ian Botham

Why everything that's supposed to be bad
Make me feel so good? — Kanye West

What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously. — Haruki Murakami

Good man and bad man with money goes a long ways." ~ Amunhotep El Bey — Amunhotep El Bey