Mariko's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. We all have that inner voice that is wise, even if we don't always follow it. It's that voice I'm trying to listen to.

Ray Lamontagne

#3. 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

#4. Having traveled initially to get away, ultimately we travel to come home.

Mary-Lou Weisman

#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. ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Renee Ahdieh

#10. 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

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

Tamaki, Mariko

#12. 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

#13. As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolutionary War-era; and I became fascinated by the presidency of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University.

Joyce Carol Oates

#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. If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.

Edsger Dijkstra

#17. They are young and life has no limits. Nothing is impossible, nothing beyond doing or knowing. The world is theirs and everything in it.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#18. As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain hidden deep in Emily's nature - the strain of the gypsy and the poet, the genius and the fool.

L.M. Montgomery

#19. You do not have too many boogeymen for me. You have just the right number.

Rebecca Wells

#20. God usually meets us at our level of expectancy. That's why, in many ways, your expectations will set the boundaries for your life. Jesus said, According to your faith ... be it done to you.

Joel Osteen

#21. The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

William Blake

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

Mariko Mori

#23. Even at an early age, I rebelled against my strict upbringing. When I was 9, I built myself a 'make-out fort' in our backyard from wood, filled it with candy, and invited my blond, blue-eyed neighbor over to kiss.

Azita Ghanizada

#24. Marriage is a sort of poetical see-saw.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#25. No one said learning etiquette and espionage would be easy, my dear.

Gail Carriger

#26. Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now.

Denis Waitley

#27. 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

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

Renee Ahdieh