Yoshikatsu Kasai Quotes & Sayings

Agatha was a connoisseur of headaches, and was relieved at the transitory nature of this one. — Phil Foglio

The authors of the four passages share a number of practices: an insistence on fresh wording and concrete imagery over familiar verbiage and abstract summary; an attention to the readers' vantage point and the target of their gaze; the judicious placement of an uncommon word or idiom against a backdrop of simple nouns and verbs; the use of parallel syntax; the occasional planned surprise; the presentation of a telling detail that obviates an explicit pronouncement; the use of meter and sound that resonate with the meaning and mood.
The authors also share an attitude: they do not hide the passion and relish that drive them to tell us about their subjects. They write as if they have something important to say. But no, that doesn't capture it. They write as if they have something important to show. And that, we shall see, is a key ingredient in the sense of style. — Steven Pinker

I'm a humorist. A guy like Paul Simon just makes my life so much simpler. When I was there, he had a hearing against hate. Steven Spielberg came and testified against hate. Paul Simon said hate was bad. Orrin Hatch was there, and he was against hate too. Everyone was opposed to hate. Is this really a wonderful way to spend our tax dollars, to have these men drone away about how against hate they are? — Dave Barry

True love exists beyond space and time. — Darlene Zagata

Love is not a disease. — Rachel Hartman

Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird. — Barry Ritholtz

The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic . More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional progression of the poem, in terms of the music and images, so that the poem is alive throughout. Another, more fundamental statement in poetry, is made through the images themselves those declarations, evocative, exact, and musical, which move through time and are the actions of a poem. — Muriel Rukeyser

'Lizzie McGuire' was my big thing when I was younger. I did buy some pencils and back-to-school stuff of hers because she was on it. I loved her. — Jordin Sparks

The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all. — Sarah Palin

When I was growing up, I had a G.I. Joe doll, and now, to see a recreation of my character as an action figure ... it's strange. Because Worf doesn't really look like Michael Dorn without makeup, it's easier to separate myself from these recreations, but it's still strange, flattering, and weird all at the same time. — Michael Dorn

If you ask me if I'm okay again, I'm going to smack myself in the face just to punish you. — Rachel Caine

Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. — Geneen Roth

Hey. My life's not all about weird little creatures pretending to be teddy bears. From Tribe of the Teddy Bear. — J. Joseph Wright

I don't think success is a place or a definition, I think it's a direction. — Charles Wang

Girls with boyfriends, she'd said, limit themselves to a certain kind of college experience. — Jenny Han