Yoshinao Oda Quotes & Sayings

A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things. — Jonathan Demme

The Tarahumara would party like this all night, then rouse themselves the next morning to face off in a running race that could last not two miles, not two hours, but two full days. According to the Mexican historian Francisco Almada, a Tarahumara champion once ran 435 miles, the equivalent of setting out for a jog in New York City and not stopping till you were closing in on Detroit. — Christopher McDougall

As long as a character doesn't die, the character can always come back. — Cote De Pablo

America needs to be careful not to let aging baby boomers define its outlook. We cannot afford to farm out our vision of the future to a retiring generation. We can already see some indications of where that will lead: our political, cultural, and economic conversations today overflow with the language of decay and corrosion, as if our body politic is itself an aging boomer looking back upon his glory days. — Yuval Levin

Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones. — C.S. Lewis

How exhausting, Clary thought, to fight all your life and then be expected to continue that fight even when your life was over. — Cassandra Clare

It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate. — Zadie Smith

Select companions who are striving for enlightenment. They all have their imperfections, certainly, but at least their attention is moving in the right direction. — Frederick Lenz