Toshitsugu Takamatsus Birthday Quotes & Sayings

The seeds of evil usually germinated in the footprints of people who knew how everybody else ought to behave and felt the need to tell them so. — Charles Stross

I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion. — James Buchanan

I have never designed a language for its own sake. — Niklaus Wirth

Life is not easy for anyone here. Loss and fear, failure and disappointment, pain and ill-health, doubt and death-even those who have escaped from poverty have no escape from these. What makes life bearable is love-to love, to be loved, and-even after death or parting-to know that you have loved and been loved. — Vikram Seth

Politicians are the sole cause of our incurable social eczema — Munia Khan

I too have drunk and seen
the spider — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

It is slow, gradual pressure that is the formula for both genius and earthquakes. Life tells us our secrets in these cracks, the way events conspire with each other in hidden grottos. This movement is at times very subtle, over a long time, like plate tectonics. If you don't have the right eyes, you might miss these patterns altogether. Although our lives do not occur in geological scales of time, it is still the gradual pressure and our minute reactions, our habits, that actually speak of our true natures. Our true will and intent is contained in potential within each of us, though in many it is buried very, very deep. — James Curcio

I always try to be a champion of social change and anything that brings awareness to a really dire situation. — Kenna

I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like I found myself here and I really know who I am now. There was a long period like I was drifting or floating through life, and now I feel like I have a definitive target - and future. — Ryan Kwanten

I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms. — Caroline Shaw

Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite. — Huston Smith