Mariko Quotes

#1. And despite being seventeen - Hattori Mariko knew her place in life. She would marry Minamoto Raiden. Her parents would have the prestige of a daughter in the Heian Castle. And Mariko would be the only one to know the stain on that honor.

Renee Ahdieh

#2. Then - without another sound - the beast glided toward her. Like a ghost. Like a demon of the forest, flying on a whorl of black smoke. Mariko's

Renee Ahdieh

#3. The stars could fall - the moon could crash from the heavens - and Mariko could not care.

Renee Ahdieh

#4. This is the thing about school dances. They make like it's supposed to be this other-worldly thing, but really it's just the people you see every day dressed up, standing in the gym in the dark with Red Hot Chili Peppers playing.

Mariko Tamaki

#5. We've fallen into a fin-de-siecle period of crisis in which people believe only the things they see right in front of them

Mariko Mori

#6. Did you ever wish you had a book that would explain the full meaning of life's random happenings to you?

Mariko Tamaki

#7. I can't really say why everyone loves Bob Wills' music, but I have yet to meet a person who didn't like it.

Merle Haggard

#8. I had a dream I put my hands inside my chest and held my heart to try to keep it still.

Mariko Tamaki

#9. A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and understands its eloquence, can alone pride himself in cleverness.

Luc De Clapiers

#10. Stay or go. I leave it to you. But you are welcome always. In all ways.

Renee Ahdieh

#11. When Nick leaves our room, he leaves behind a dark thunder cloud. He has carried the shadow with him for so long that it has become a part of him and has settled in the shadows of the room.

Mariko Nagai

#12. Just a little bit too freaked to go to The Freak Show today.

Tamaki, Mariko

#13. I am making an Enlightenment Capsule for the audience to meditate inside - virtual reality in which people can experience ancient ideas from the East ... But I'm not interested in using ancient things; rather I want to connect [audiences] with contemporary life through the technology we have now.

Mariko Mori

#14. I must create the world in order to breathe in the world; I don't exist unless I create.

Mariko Mori

#15. It just takes time,
it just takes patience, he says,
just like it does with people. Don't give up
until you have done everything to change
yourself. Then, he says as he sits
on the doorstep, only then you can start
blaming others.

Mariko Nagai

#16. Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.

Marilyn Manson

#17. The spider dances her web without knowing there are flies that will get caught in it. The fly, dancing nonchalantly on a sunbeam gets caught without knowing what lies in store. But through both of them "It" dances. So, too, the archer hits the target without having aimed-more I cannot say.

Eugen Herrigel

#18. Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.

Michael Caine

#19. I am interested in circulating past iconography in the present in order to get to the future.

Mariko Mori

#20. He's awake and listening to us," said the old woman. "Sly little rascal." She chuckled. "But royalty has need of slyness. And if he's really the Kwisatz Haderach ... well ... .

Frank Herbert

#21. The modern painter ... is an excellent couturier

Joris-Karl Huysmans

#22. If the Church has no the authority to tell its members that they may not engage in homosexual practices, then it has no authority at all. And if we accept the argument of the hypocrites of homosexuality that their sin is not a sin, we have destroyed ourselves.

Orson Scott Card