Kumashiro Anti Quotes

#1. I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#2. First learn to write as if you were already dead and then you will learn to write as if you were still alive.

Niccolo Tucci

#3. I would hate to think I am not an amature. An amateur is one who loves what he is doing. Very often, I'm afraid, the professional hates what he is doing. So, I'd rather be an amateur.

Yehudi Menuhin

#4. I've gone out with my shotgun. This is hunting country out there. You better run.

Lou Reed

#5. Sometime I'll get around to asking why the English nobility have so blasted many names that a conversation about them is like reading a Russian novel. I have a private suspicion it's done on purpose to confuse foreigners.

Jeanne M. Dams

#6. We should let ourselves react emotionally and feel whatever anger or sadness being criticized evokes for us. And then we should quickly move on.

Sheryl Sandberg

#7. But, thank God, [the fish] are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able.

Ernest Hemingway,

#8. Stay close to the young ... and a little rubs off.

Alan Jay Lerner

#9. I don't have a body, I am a body.

Christopher Hitchens

#10. The possibilities of thought training are infinite, its consequences eternal, and yet few take the pains to direct their thinking into channels that will do them good, but instead leave all to chance.

Brice Marden

#11. I don't set out to write female lead shows, necessarily. I like deeply flawed characters. When they come to me, or when I'm introduced to them, I follow the stories and the people, rather than setting out to do a female lead thing.

Jenji Kohan

#12. It is for homely features to keep home,- They had their name thence; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn?

John Milton

#13. Bolster, v.
I am very careful whenever I know you're on the phone with your father. I know you'll come to me eventually, and we'll talk you through it. But I have to wait - you need your time. In the meantime, I'm careful what songs I play. I try to speak to you with my selections.

David Levithan