Touya Kinomoto Quotes & Sayings

The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed. — J.C. Ryle

I am an impatient, temperamental reader. Anything long-winded, high-flown or gushing irritates me, so does everything that is vague and indistinct, in fact anything that unnecessarily holds the reader up, whether in a novel, a biography or an intellectual argument. — Stefan Zweig

I was arguing not that everyone should read books by ladies - though shifting the balance matters - but that maybe the whole point of reading is to be able to explore and also transcend your gender (and race and class and orientation and nationality and moment in history and age and ability) and experience being others. — Rebecca Solnit

Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving. — Paulina Porizkova

People who are given to deliberating on their actions generally find themselves in a serious frame of mind when it comes to embarking on a journey or changing their mode of life. At such moments one reviews the past and forms plans for the future. — Leo Tolstoy

People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands. — Patti Smith

Too long, much too long. — Jessica Verday

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music. — Carly Simon

I spend most of my life just listening to people. — Chuck Palahniuk

My darkest desires were for an inaccessible normality. — C.D. Reiss

Make the customer the hero of your brand's story. — Simon Mainwaring

This is life. We have to take it as it comes, because even though some things are really shitty, there's a lot of really great stuff too. — Rebecca Serle