Donald Keene Quotes

#1. Ew, sicko. I was practicing Edomic."
"Sure you were," Jason said. "You're just too embarrassed to admit you were playing hide-and-seek all alone. Rachel hiding, nobody seeking.

Brandon Mull

#2. Some were Charter Mages, and there would not be time to argue rights and wrongs, so any aggressive magic he used would be countered or negated by these others, as was the nature of Charter Magic.

Garth Nix

#3. Cultivate your craft. Water it daily, pour some tender loving care into it, and watch it grow. Remember that a plant doesn't sprout immediately. Be patient, and know that in life you will reap what you sow.

J.B. McGee

#4. The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

Rihanna

#5. For the rest of her life Rebecca Winter would apprehend the rumble of a truck engine in deep silence, or anything dimly like it, even the rhythmic solo roll of a kettledrum in a symphonic passage, as the soothing sound of salvation.

Anna Quindlen

#6. Getting carried away is stupid, it won't get me anywhere.
-Nana Komatsu

Ai Yazawa

#7. A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight.

Kate Jacobs

#8. My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

#9. Nature is not a free lunch, but we treat it as a free lunch.

Robert Bateman

#10. You can do anything for 30 seconds

Tony Horton

#11. He considered China's interference in Korea to be an intolerable attempt to prevent the spread of enlightenment, and the war itself not merely a struggle between two countries but a "battle for the sake of world culture."49

Donald Keene