Trishy Japanese Quotes & Sayings

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. — Tom Stoppard

What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee? — George Steiner

Did Mad freakin' Max just call me irritating? — Joe Pesci

All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home. — Andre Balazs

If you want to experience love, then you have to be ready for pain. One doesn't come without the other. If I didn't love you, I wouldn't have to worry about losing you. If you want laughter, expect tears. — Harlan Coben

I like to think I'm pretty good at what I do. — John Carmack

The only shots you can be sure of are those you've had already. — Byron Nelson

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. — Samuel Butler

The birds scratch the seed out of the feeder, then fly down to the deck to eat the seed. They know there's a cat, but still they go down to pick at the seed. When you think about it, people are often like this, too. — Robert Crais

They felt that it was much easier and safer to rob their own people, for they knew that white policemen never really searched diligently for Negroes who committed crimes against other Negroes. — Richard Wright

We're allowed to go on living happy, healthy lives because tens of thousands of animals like this chimp sacrifice their lives. But all people do is kill and hate and do whatever they please. I guess they forgot that nature is what keeps us all alive. — M..