Akishima Library Quotes

#1. King Abdullah has died. A divisive figure in the Middle East. The sad irony is that the USA preached democracy in the face of absolute rule.

Immortal Technique

#2. Children are like water; they don't much care where the stream takes them. They do nothing to avoid or follow the contours.

Nilesh Rathod

#3. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

Katherine Graham

#4. The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.

John G. Diefenbaker

#5. He didn't ask what I was thinking, which was out of character for him. I guessed that meant that he was just as nervous as I suddenly was.

Stephenie Meyer

#6. Not everybody can say they wore heels in Paris Hilton's closet.

Israel Broussard

#7. If I can be a good person and help a few non-believers or even help people that are believers but need a little help along the way, I think that's a job that I take very seriously.

Mark Teixeira

#8. A modern arboretum brings us that ancient forest and, with it, a changed apprehension of time, a renewed appreciation of the elegance of natural form and a renewed sense of wonder at the variety of the world we inhabit.

John Burnside

#9. A novel takes place over time. It's a historical narrative, and it needs to have a series of peaks and valleys and the move through. You can't just start at the highest pitch and stay there, but you can in a lyric poem.

Edward Hirsch

#10. Falling apart wasn't an option.

Lissa Price

#11. Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and
delightfully
it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape as anchors in tattoos.

David Foster Wallace

#12. Demons," drawled the blond boy, tracing the word on the air with his finger. "Religiously defined as hell's denizens, the servants of Satan, but understood here, for the purposes of the Clave, to be any malevolent spirit whose origin is outside our own home dimension -

Cassandra Clare

#13. The music in a film like this is as critical as anything because Kong is mute. He doesn't talk.

Peter Jackson

#14. The way to be truly happy is to be truly human, and the way to be truly human is to be truly godly.

J.I. Packer

#15. When thoughts arise, recognize them clearly as your teacher.

Gampopa