Tsukumo Nanbaka Quotes & Sayings

She lay on her back in bed for a long time thinking and when she returned to school an hour early she was beyond all desire to cry and she had sharpened her sense of smell along with her claws so that she could track down the miserable whore who had ruined her life. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. — Kazuo Ishiguro

Criticism is to poetry as air is to a noise: it allows it to be heard; and even if we can't see it or feel it, it is there, shaping how we hear. — Annie Finch

I don't want to have a dozen sons," she had told him, appalled. "I want to have adventures" ~Asha Greyjoy — George R R Martin

[T]he world springs out of a want, out of privation, but it is false speculation to make this privation an ontological being. — Ludwig Feuerbach

Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast. — Daniel Kahneman

We're distracted and we let the door slam on the person behind us, we trip over curbs as we're texting, we're...sedentary, weighed down, collapsed over the laptop. ...We've forgotten how to move through life with grace. — Sarah L. Kaufman

A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray. — Alan Sherman

Level 5 leaders channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company. It's not that Level 5 leaders have no ego or self-interest. Indeed, they are incredibly ambitious-but their ambition is first and foremost for the institution, not themselves. — James C. Collins

When I tell people I was in the St. Justin Martyr parish, if they are native Chicagoans they know exactly where I was and what that was like. The Sunday before this particular march, the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Cody, had required all of his pastors to read a letter in support of open housing and economic justice in every parish in the city. — Sara Paretsky

A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie in the heart of man, and the cure for these is a firm hope, informed and fortified by thought. — Bertrand Russell

It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened. — V.S. Pritchett

It's great to be able to employ people who other people wouldn't consider viable employees. — Queen Latifah