Yone Quotes & Sayings

I clear breakfast at ten o'clock. I set on lunch at one. Dinner I set on at six. It's ten o'clock. — Shirley Jackson

While obsession with one's personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness. — Kate Cann

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father. — Bernardo Bertolucci

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person. — Ajay Naidu

I must do what I can to make myself intelligible to you. Our natures, however, are so different, that this may not be easy. Men and women live but to die; we, that is such as I-we are but a few-live to live on. Old age is to you a horror; to me it is a dear desire: the older we grow, the nearer we are to our perfection. Your perfection is a poor thing, comes soon, and lasts but a little while; ours is a ceaseless ripening. I am not yet ripe, and have lived thousands of your years-how many, I never cared to note. The everlasting will not be measured. — George MacDonald

While blame determines who is at fault for something, responsibility determines who is committed to improving things. — Hal Elrod

Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this. — Richard P. Feynman

It isn't discomfort, or dis-ease as he put it. It's this aching, throbbing, god-awful incurable pain - and it's known as life. When will the doctors learn: It isn't death that's the disease. — Wendy Law-Yone

Bodh Gaya is a land of enlightenment. Years ago, what Bodh Gaya got was Siddhartha but what Bodh Gaya gave to the world was Lord Buddha, the epitome of knowledge, peace and compassion. — Narendra Modi

I sing the song of my heartstrings, alone in the eternal muteness, in the face of God. — Yone Noguchi

It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society. — Ron Lewis

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward. — Chief Joseph

Ask us not whether we are right or wrong, happy or sad, sane or mad. — Yone Noguchi

i'm going to kidnap your daughter someday and i won't let your nephew learn how to read because of how much i love you and scream at your grave and i'll rent your room out to some guy from London — Mallory Ortberg

What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession, then your image of what a good lawyer is a male image. — Sonia Sotomayor

A healthier, less impoverished planet is good for all of us. From an economic standpoint, it allows people to contribute more to the marketplace and lead productive lives. U.S. foreign assistance opens new markets to U.S. goods and services and creates new trading partners and allies. — Mike Huckabee

Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away. — Arundhati Roy

The only person more cynical than a drunk is a reformed drunk. — James Crumley