Yoshoto Quotes & Sayings

Sarcasm is one of the many services I offer to people who ask stupid questions! — Habeeb Akande

Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almost as bad as the transgressor. — David Levithan

They both fell silent. For a while the only sound they could hear was the noise of books resting on shelves, which wasn't really enough of a sound to distract them from the awkwardness of the moment. — Gideon Defoe

(I lied, in 1939, with far greater conviction that I told the truth- so I was positive that M. Yoshoto looked at me with suspicion when I said I wasn't feeling well. — J.D. Salinger

Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

Presently, some sort of fish was served to me on a plate with a small but noticeable trace of coagulated catsup along the border. Mme. Yoshoto asked me, in English
and her accent was unexpectedly charming
if I would prefer an egg, but I said, "Non, non, madame
merci!" I said I never ate eggs. M. Yoshoto leaned his newspaper against my water glass, and the three of us ate in silence; that is, they ate and I systematically swallowed in silence. — J.D. Salinger

That was the extent of our relationship, but I knew he used me to keep Were women from insinuating themselves into his life. My gaze landed on the fat little black book beside his phone. Apparently that didn't slow him down when it came to dating. Dang, he needed a rubber band to keep the thing shut. — Kim Harrison

Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time. — H. G. Bissinger

No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It's all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing. — Billy Boyd

Rise up Black Men, and take your stand. Reach up black men and women and pull all nature's knowledge to you. Turn ye around and make a conquest of everything North and South, East and West. And then we you have wrought well, you will have merited God's blessing, you will become God's chosen people and naturally you'll become leaders of the world. — Marcus Garvey

Are we all bubbles blown by a baby? — H.G.Wells