Uchida Kosaburo Quotes & Sayings

I studied with a number of different teachers. But really, I've never studied with teachers. To be honest, the only thing that's ever interested me in life is eternity. Nothing else makes any sense to me. — Frederick Lenz

You might get some serial killers who are born with a chip missing, but for the most part I don't think anyone is born bad. — Benicio Del Toro

When in my present lonely lot, I feel my past has not been free From sins which I remember not, I dread more, what to come, may be. — Murasaki Shikibu

Is it not possible that we are still living in the Dark Ages, still mocking the suggestion of 'mystical' forces that we cannot see or comprehend. — Dan Brown

Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, ... the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as slavery lasted. — Ned Sublette

Obama supporters pretended that his 2008 campaign was some sort of populist uprising even as Wall Street overwhelmingly supported his candidacy. — Glenn Greenwald

There was always something that you had to do before you could do the thing you wanted to do and even then you might get it wrong. — Terry Pratchett

When my obituary notice at last appears in The Times, and they say: 'What, I thought he died years ago,' my ghost will gently chuckle. — W. Somerset Maugham

I get the strange urge to hit my head against the wall. Other people's sobs make me feel uncomfortable. — Veronica Roth

Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. — Noam Chomsky

This was the bad version. This version was what later events told her had happened. It was as real as the other. They played simultaneously in a loop, yet Mathilde could never quite believe it. That twitch of a leg, a later insertion, surely. She could not believe, and yet something in her did believe, and this contradiction that she held within her became the source of everything. All that remained were the facts. Before it all happened she had been so beloved, afterward, love had been withdrawn. And she had pushed or she hadn't, the result had been all the same. There had been no forgiveness for her, but she had been so very young. How could parents do this? How could she not have been forgiven? — Lauren Groff

If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job. — Ron Howard