Tsunehisa Namimatsu Quotes & Sayings

Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing. — Elizabeth Kostova

It's your action that reflects on the others' reaction. If you expect good you are forced to be good. — Mohd Riyaz Ali

I worry about images. Images are what things mean. — E.L. Doctorow

For those of us who aren't great with people, we figure that silence is always the safest bet. If you're an introvert, you spend so much of your time wishing that other people would just shut the hell up that you figure you're doing everyone a favor. — David Wong

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution. — Ezra Taft Benson

Fire had come to know more about the insignificant habits and tastes of Lord Mydogg, Lord Gentian, Murgda, Gunner, all their households and all their guests than any person could care to know. She knew Gentian was ambitious but also slightly featherbrained at times and had a delicate stomach, ate no rich foods, and drank only water. She knew his son Gunner was cleverer than his father, a reputable soldier, a bit of an ascetic when it came to wine and women. Mydogg was the opposite, denied himself no pleasure, was lavish with his favorites and stingy with everyone else. Murgda was stingy with everyone including herself, and was said to be exceedingly fond of bread pudding. — Kristin Cashore

Travel's greatest purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. — William Hazlitt

When a dream of dying actually becomes a chance to live. All you have to do is fall. — Brynn Myers

And Pencroft returned to his work, not without uttering a sigh of regret, for every sailor is a born fisherman, and if the pleasure of fishing is in exact proportion to the size of the animal, one can judge how a whaler feels in sight of a whale. — Jules Verne

Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you. — John Ortberg Jr.

You never know where your next scare is coming from. You've just gotta find the courage to face it. — Shaggy

When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality. — Ian McKellen