Yanagida Kazumi Quotes & Sayings

Usually, as a fiction writer, you get e-mails saying, 'I liked your book,' or 'I didn't like it.' You don't get something saying, 'I'm really glad this is in the world.' — Darin Strauss

I'd rather wear out than rust out, he'd once said years before, echoing the words of the evangelist George Whitefield. — Laura Frantz

It's inexplicable why somebody can lose a leg and it doesn't effect them at all emotionally; and another person can lose a foot and be destroyed for the rest of their lives. — Krishna Das

He had built his own future brick by brick around himself but there were no doors or windows, at least that was the way it seemed at the time he had thought to himself, I am locked in, it was like one of those ghost stories where you wake up and you are sealed in a coffin. — Dan Chaon

I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there's that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I'm competitive in all aspects. — Ashton Eaton

[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her. — William Cowper

Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride,
Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide:
If to her share some female errors fall,
Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all. — Alexander Pope

If you stop and confine yourself to one place, you will develop prejudices. — Guo Xiang

Don't be too afraid of failure to learn what you need to learn. — Jennifer Westfeldt

I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries - Slovakia and the Czech Republic - put them together as one. — Jesse Ventura

of the afternoon Mr. Fitz-Wattle---- — P.G. Wodehouse