Viereck Concrete Quotes & Sayings

I said, 'Okay, it's the year 2000, I'm getting a computer and a Palm Pilot.' I know how to check my e-mail, and I've listed some phone numbers on it. Half the time the battery has gone out so I can't use it. — Marc Jacobs

The world is a treadmill, and we are being pulled backward on it if we aren't consciously walking forward. — J. Grant Howard

The songs of Japan take the human heart as their seed and flourish as myriad leaves of words. As long as they are alive to this world, the cares and deeds of men and women are endless, so they speak of things they hear and see, giving words to the feelings in their hearts. Hearing the cries of the warbler among the blossoms or the calls of the frog that lives in the waters, how can we doubt that every living creature sing its song? Not using force, it moves heaven and earth, makes even the unseen spirits and gods feel pity, smoothes the bonds between man and woman, and consoles the hearts of fierce warriors-such a thing is poetry. — Ki No Tsurayuki

A connoisseur of woe needs fresh worries from time to time, or he will become complacent. — Peter Mayle

That's what marriage is, isn't it? Taking the rough with the smooth. At least, that's what it should be. — Laura Barnett

One should never initiate anything that he cannot saturate with prayer. — S.D. Gordon