Haida's Quotes

#1. Among the Haida Indians of the Pacific Northwest, the verb for "making poetry" is the same as the verb "to breathe."
Such tidbits of ethnic lore delighted Amanda, and she vowed from that time onward she would try to regulate each breath as if she were composing a poem.

Tom Robbins

#2. Every catastrophe can hand us exactly what we need to awaken into who we really are.

Elizabeth Lesser

#3. Most people are motivated by the economy. And if you've lost your job, lost your mortgage, lost your 401(k), you're angry. And if your brother-in-law has lost one of those you're angry still. And when you're angry you take it out on people who are in office. Which is natural.

Ed Rendell

#4. My art collection is dominated by tribal art from Nigeria where I taught school, from New Guinea where we've travelled, and by Canadian Haida pieces. My own art is either on exhibition or owned by other people!

Robert Bateman

#5. Haida preferred to listen to instrumental music, chamber music, and vocal recordings. Music where the orchestral component was loud and prominent wasn't to his liking.

Haruki Murakami

#6. Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.

Kenneth Burke

#7. The world isn't that easily turned upside down, Haida replied. It's people who are turned upside down.

Haruki Murakami

#8. I came across a Haida saying that had etched itself into my memory banks: 'Joy is a well-made object, equaled only to the joy of making it.

Adam Leith Gollner

#9. He rises over me, a second sun, and fills me with light and heat.

Jodi Picoult

#10. He liked the staccato beat of the rain drumming on the roof of the carving shed.

R.J. Harlick

#11. He is not dead, he is just - away.

James Whitcomb Riley

#12. I have my mother's mouth and my father's eyes; on my face they are
still together.

Warsan Shire

#13. One uproar after another, every day. Like the whole world's turned upside down. Don't you feel bad that you're missing out? The world isn't that easily turned upside down, Haida replied. It's people who are turned upside down. I don't feel bad about missing that.

Haruki Murakami

#14. Smartass Disciple: What were said for things before the time exist?
Master of Stupidity: No words to be said by no man at no time at all.

Toba Beta

#15. To me, the haircut represented beauty and strength, that I was a woman who would live her life without the boundaries imposed upon her by other people.

Kat Von D.

#16. In my heart, I'm just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I'm not a rich man.

Terry Pratchett

#17. If that's true, then what's the value of human free will?"
"That's a great question," Haida said, and smiled quietly. The kind of smile a cat gives as it stretches out, napping in the sun. "I wish I had an answer for you, but I don't. Not yet.

Haruki Murakami

#18. To waste! You are unknown and unwanted, save by me. This, because you are fairly adept at the various embalming arts and you occasionally compose a clever epitaph.

Roger Zelazny

#19. I've jokingly said that everything I'm doing now is filling up the hours before I die, but I do feel that slightly. I have no religious beliefs so this is the ride. This is it. So I'm just like anyone, I suppose, trying to fill out the days in the most interesting way possible.

Stephen Merchant

#20. Is it better, financially, to go to the physics department than the philosophy department?" Tsukuru asked. "When it comes to their graduates not earning anything, they're about even. Unless you win the Nobel Prize or something," Haida said, flashing his usual winning smile.

Haruki Murakami

#21. I am attracted to the dark side of life!

Famke Janssen

#22. The girls had suddenly disappeared, and Haida had taken their place.

Haruki Murakami

#23. developers insert an average of 1 to 3 defects per hour into their designs and 5 to 8 defects per hour into code

Steve McConnell