Yakumo Tokyo Quotes & Sayings

What would happen if you melted? You know, you never really hear this talked about much, but spontaneous combustion? It exists! ... [people] burn from within ... sometimes theyll be in a wooden chair and the chair wont burn, but therell be nothing left of the person. Except sometimes his teeth. Or the heart. No one speaks about this, but its for real. — Keanu Reeves

The church must by her varied agencies, efforts, and prayers, make herself ready to be blessed; she must make the pools, and the Lord will fill them. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination. — Enoch Powell

Hugo and I sat together in the chapel and didn't say a word to each other. We'd already said them all, in better times and in better places. — Craig Lancaster

The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor embodies in his person, another's work; only thus does he understand art, realize it, know it; and having arrived at this, his task is done. — George Edward Woodberry

I had drunk so deeply of grief and innocently gambled so hard with fate and irony that a special kind of vision was gathering in my eyes, not entirely clear just yet. This was the same look people saw in your eyes when you have died for beauty and come to live accepting nature as life with no promise of paradise, and mad at people who couldn't see that. — Martin Prechtel

The line of traffic advancing towards the rising sun looked like a procession of the returning dead. Every one of them, solitaries in clean shirts, smoking, checking mirrors to see if their reflections were still there, wore dark glasses. — Iain Sinclair

I would like to think that Ive left the world of cardiovascular surgery better than when I found it. That would be a suitable epitaph. — C. Walton Lillehei

They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff. — Isaac Bashevis Singer