Yasujiro Quotes & Sayings

Apologies are not pass/fail. — Randy Pausch

I can make fried tofu, boiled tofu, stuffed tofu. Cutlets and other fancy stuff, that's for other directors. — Yasujiro Ozu

There was no night there at this season, any more than all the year through in heaven. Indeed we have seldom real positive night in this world - so many provisions have been made against it. Every time we say, "What a lovely night!" we speak of a breach, a rift in the old night. There is light more or less, positive light, else were there no beauty. Many a night is but a low starry day, a day with a softened background against which the far-off suns of millions of other days show themselves: when the near vision vanishes the farther hope awakes. It is nowhere said of heaven, there shall be no twilight there, — George MacDonald

And many other places to the like purpose. And therefore men can be justified by their words, no otherwise than as evidences or manifestations of what is in the heart. And it is thus that Christ speaks of the words in this very place, as is evident by the context, ver. 34, 35. "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart," &c. The words, — Jonathan Edwards

One of my favorite films is 'Late Spring' by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art. — Michael Arndt

Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions. — Albert Ellis

I just want to make a tray of good tofu. If people want something else, they should go to the restaurants and shops. — Yasujiro Ozu

Genius must be born, it can't be taught. — John Dryden

Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling. — Mark Twain

The wide screen reminds me of a roll of toilet paper. — Yasujiro Ozu

There is no difference between a wall and a door which is not used! For a door to be a door, it must be used! For anything to be itself, it must be used! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone? — George Orwell

I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time. — Lita Ford

Writing is how I metabolize life and how I give and receive. — Crescent Dragonwagon

There are more whipped guys on television than there were on the Amistad. — Greg Giraldo

A scattered mind will produce scattered results. — Dana Gore