Tomikawa Akihiro Quotes & Sayings

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that. — Katherine Anne Porter

Life's a journey that goes round and round and the end is closest to the beginning. — Edward James Olmos

One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second. — Samuel Beckett

A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds - or tries to add - the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented. — William Osler

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years. — Harvey Fierstein

I believe if you want to convey a complex philosophy, it's advisable to keep it simple: day-to-day lingo. — Amish Tripathi

I was raised as a Calvinist, which is doctrine-driven. And though there are many things wrong with Calvinism, you are at least encouraged to argue about things. — Paul Schrader

The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner and the god of the enslaved, naturally you will choose the former ... — Barry Unsworth

Are you going to let me finish or should I just expect you to interrupt after each sentence? — Bonnie Lamer

If I had shown half as many dangerous tendencies when I was a boy, my father would have apprenticed me to a greengrocer, of that I'm very sure, — Samuel Butler