Hiraga Gennai Quotes

#1. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Shane Kuhn

#2. Let me know what I am able and trust that behind all events no matter how painful there is a reason from which truth can come.

Caroline Myss

#3. After examining some of the recent cases which the Postal Service has pursued, vigorous prosecution of, for example, a health food advocate.

Vin Weber

#4. You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend your disbelief in the character is too much.

Adam McKay

#5. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Anais Nin

#6. The smart phone isn't a perfect device, as we all know. It forces the world into a tiny screen. It runs out of battery, bandwidth, and power. It distracts us from the world around us.

John Battelle

#7. Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.

E. M. Forster

#8. Since you've come all the way over here to tell me, I have a distinct feeling it doesn't matter if I do or not. Anyway, go right ahead. Add a prelude, if you'd like. And a 'Dance of the Blessed Spirits.' I don't mind.

Haruki Murakami

#9. Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters.

Jan Wong

#10. As long as we are not ourselves, we will try to be what other people are.

Malidoma Patrice Some

#11. His smiling face revealed a love too strong to be kept inside, but the feelings obviously rising inside him kept him from looking directly at Kikunojou. He gazed instead at Kikunojou's clear reflection on the water.

Haruo Shirane

#12. In the middle distance, sails were gliding like butterflies, and farther away, ships dotted the mouth of the bay between Awa and Sagami as if brushed in ink in a single flowing stroke.

Haruo Shirane

#13. Then, once he had eaten, he would ask the spirits for guidance. Their guidance was pretty useless, but the company would be welcome.

Joe Abercrombie

#14. the sweet drone of honeysuckle thickening the

Emma Cline

#15. Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities.

Winston Churchill

#16. For me, going to markets is the best way to understand the soul of a place.

Alain Ducasse

#17. I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.

Campbell Scott