Isogawa Quotes

#1. But I should like to take these things on full gallop, instead of dawdling along gaping at them. I get fearfully tired, and a very little Abbey goes a long way with me.

Susan Hale

#2. ... Full of old cockatoos who used to be rich and aren't any longer, but they cling to yesterday tooth and nail, preferring to live on bread and sardines rather than sell what little they have left of their faded glory.

Maria Duenas

#3. For me as a writer, Albanian is simply an extraordinary means of expression - rich, malleable, adaptable. As I have said in my latest novel, 'Spiritus,' it has modalities that exist only in classical Greek, which puts one in touch with the mentality of antiquity.

Ismail Kadare

#4. The Yunkai's hold the center themselves, Dany noted.

George R R Martin

#5. We can change South Africa on the rugby field

Danie Craven

#6. No word meaning "art" occurs in Aivilik, nor does "artist": there are only people. Nor is any distinction made between utilitarian and decorative objects. The Aivilik say simply, "A man should do all things properly."

Edmund Snow Carpenter

#7. The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

Barry Commoner

#8. When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn't know if this was empathy or theft.

Leslie Jamison

#9. I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#10. While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.

A.R. Rahman

#11. Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#12. ... she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy

Audrey Niffenegger

#13. The body cannot take chronic terror; it must defend itself by refusing to harbor the spirit that wants to soar through it and experience life to the fullest.

Carmen Aguirre

#14. I have a long way to catch up. I have to start with the pros this year, about 20 seconds back.

Josh Brolin