Amamiya Manami Quotes

#1. The islands above the falls are covered with foliage as beautiful as can be seen anywhere. Viewed from the mass of rock which overhangs the fall, the scenery was the loveliest I had seen.

David Livingstone

#2. I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.

Rachel Kushner

#3. Nothing of worth was ever achieved without the focused effort to pursue or create whatever was desired or needed.

Steven Redhead

#4. Coming joys, like tropical shores, throw over the immensity before them their inborn softness, an odorous wind, and we are lulled by this intoxication without a thought of the horizon that we do not even know.

Gustave Flaubert

#5. Having lived in a collapsed empire before - I lived in Russia right after the Soviet Union collapsed - you can see a lot of the classic signs of an empire that's on its way out.

Matt Taibbi

#6. My aim in life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life ... looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, 'Oh, the pictures I might have made!'

Vincent Van Gogh

#7. If I'd learned anything about this woman it was that she looked like heaven, but she could make you hurt like hell.

Lisa Kessler

#8. It is proof of sincerity, which I value above all things; as, between those who practice it, falsehood and malice work their efforts in vain.

Thomas Jefferson