Zavoda Mfg Quotes & Sayings

God performs His promises. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not mistake understanding for realization, and do not mistake realization for liberation. — Sogyal Rinpoche

If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, I must be dafter than I look. — Jasper Fforde

How was Gengo to know, Saigyo reflected, that this unheroic existence imposed even greater torment than the icy lashings of the Nachi Falls in its thousand-foot leap? How was Gengo to realize that Saigyo had not slept a single night undisturbed since he had fled his home for the Eastern Hills, that his sleep was haunted by the cries of his beloved daughter from whom he had torn himself.
Who knew that during the day, when he went about his tasks of drawing water and chopping wood as he composed verses, the sighting of the wind in the treetops of the valleys below and the pines surrounding the temple sounded to him like the mourning of his young wife, and so troubled his nights that sleep no longer visited him? Never again would Saigyo find peace. He had wrenched asunder the living boughs of the tree that was his life. Remorse and compassion for his loved ones would dog him to the end of his days. — Eiji Yoshikawa

There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all. — Gertrude Stein

I started working at Hanna-Barbera in '92 on 2 Stupid Dogs. — Craig McCracken

The severe and at times almost condemning glance - a glance that seems to pass judgment - with which the homosexual appraises every good-looking young man he may encounter, is in reality a quick but intense meditation on his own loneliness — Jean Genet

It's all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton. — Michael Moore

Writing is, among things, the place where we can help ourselves cope with the dark parts of our living — John Aubrey

I'm disappointed about how my career ended. — Rickey Henderson