Chisako Oga Quotes

#1. And then there came into my heart a very great love for my father and I thought it was very much braver to spend a life doing what you really do not want rather than selfishly following forever your own dreams and inclinations.

Alistair MacLeod

#2. I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#3. I felt very special in Paris, more special than I felt in London. I love London for different reasons. I've always been close to London, being English. But somehow, there's something special about living as an Englishwoman in Paris.

Charlotte Rampling

#4. I don't have an entourage. In fact, I have no live-in help.

Lauren Bacall

#5. Until a man is struck in his own face he does not want to believe the attack on his brother concerns him.

Leon Uris

#6. I desire the things that destroy me in the end,

Lily Paradis

#7. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.

Joseph Campbell

#8. It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

Aristotle.

#9. I am in a key moment. I kind of understand that I have to use my work more completely without being ashamed.

Miuccia Prada

#10. [From Flowering Judas]
She is, her comrades tell her, full of romantic error, for what she defines as cynicism in them is merely 'a developed sense of reality'.

Katherine Anne Porter

#11. Ellen had always assumed she would marry young and have a relationship like theirs. She thought she was that sort of person. Traditional. Nice. As if nice girls always found nice boys. As if "niceness" was all that was necessary to maintain a relationship.

Liane Moriarty

#12. Your faith in Homo technologicus -the Tinkering Man- has one fatal flaw. It offers you no escape clause.

David Brin

#13. To speak of sin without grace is to minimize the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the fruit of the Spirit, and the hope of shalom.

Cornelius Plantinga

#14. Men? We don't leave a lot of room for doubt: You're a dick. You fucked my girlfriend. You killed my dog. I hate you. Direct. Clear. Unambiguous. You girls should try it sometime. It would bring us all one step closer to world peace.

Emma Chase