Akira Miyawaki Quotes

#1. I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids.

Hanya Yanagihara

#2. Every day I wake up, I say, 'Damn, I hope I don't get that call today.' I don't want to lose my mama. When I start thinking about that, I fall into a hole.

Clinton Portis

#3. I don't go to church. Not anymore. I'm a lot of things, but a hypocrite really isn't one of them. If you're not going to play by the rules, you don't show up for team meetings.

Emma Chase

#4. Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.

Sophocles

#5. The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves.

Gertrude B. Elion

#6. Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.

Boethius

#7. It is the logic of research and discovery that is tortuous, because it is the logic of science. Whereas the logic of knowledge needs no discovery, because it knows already.

Umberto Eco

#8. Read it aloud to yourself because that's the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK.

Diana Athill