Akemi Okamura Quotes

#1. The characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak of them, my language, which is inspired by them, repeats the same poems in the same tone.

Jean Genet

#2. Where you are tender, you speak your plural.

Roland Barthes

#3. Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

Daniel Barenboim

#4. Time heals all wounds, unless you pick at them.

Shaun Alexander

#5. What does perfection look like to me? Championship rings

Kobe Bryant

#6. If your teachers suggest that your poems are sentimental, that is only half of it. Your poems probably need to be even more sentimental. Don't be less of a flower, but could you be more of a stone at the same time?

Mary Ruefle

#7. People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up.

Jo Brand

#8. So is this being in love? I stay with the moment, waiting to find out, the space between us fluctuating with uncertainty. The only thing I am sure of is that each time his lips leave mine they are right back again.

Kea Alwang

#9. If ye have to ask yourself if you're in love, laddie - then ye aren't,

Diana Gabaldon

#10. A life allied with mine, for the rest of our lives ... that is the miracle of marriage.

Denis De Rougemont