Torakusu Yamaha Quotes & Sayings

Know a man by his metaphors. — John Connolly

I would prefer to keep my clothes on. Unless there's a brisk breeze or something, I tend to keep them on. — Allison Williams

The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and Orwell and Waugh and Marvell and Greene and Sterne and Shakespeare and Webster and Swift and Yeats and Joyce and Hardy, really, really love them. It's just that they don't love me back. — David Nicholls

Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons. — Tim O'Brien

There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors. — Estelle Parsons

To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions. — Helen Rowland

[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets ... — Maria Edgeworth

Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored is mooning about and doing nothing. — Aidan Chambers

When somebody walks into a room they give off a certain kind of vibe or whatever and at that point that's how you're going to cast them. — Famke Janssen

When there were not very many Internet companies, the supply of Internet companies to the market was small and the appetite for them was large. Therefore, if you were in the business of creating Internet companies in 1996-98, you had a market that provided massive demand for that. — Fred Wilson

When you trust yourself, you sow the seeds of fear into the hearts of your enemies! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Girls like me smiled politely and always did the right thing. Girls like me definitely didn't sneak away at night to do things that would crush their fathers. And if they did, girls like me knew how to keep it to themselves. — Robin Talley

What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!'
Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Frodo. Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Ring so. With Pity. — J.R.R. Tolkien

When you distort the truth, you weaken your credibility. — Frank Sonnenberg

But sure the eye of time beholds no name,
So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame. — Homer