Mishimas Sword Quotes

#1. History, like wallpaper, repeats itself and can also make a room look old-fashioned.

Demetri Martin

#2. Honestly.I don't understand Zen.It seems if you don't answer properly,or if you are rude,people get enlightened.

Jerry Pinto

#3. Repentance is another name for aspiration.

Henry Ward Beecher

#4. A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing.

Peter Porter

#5. If I wouldn't have looked under the hood, I'd have never noticed the problem. But as far as I know, the problem didn't exist before I opened the hood. So did I cause the problem by becoming aware of it, or was it already there regardless of my ignorance?

Jarod Kintz

#6. The word 'aloha,' in foreign use, has taken the place of every English equivalent. It is a greeting, a farewell, thanks, love, goodwill. Aloha looks at you from tidies and illuminations; it meets you on the roads and at house-doors. It is conveyed to you in letters: the air is full of it.

Isabella Bird

#7. I think a lot of kids I've met in L.A. trying to act want to escape working long days and think acting is all photoshoots and red carpets.

Kiersey Clemons

#8. They were the clothes of a child, and he was a child no longer.

John Connolly

#9. I said, "Some people do know more than others. That contributes to the impression that someone, somewhere,knows the whole thing." [p. 38]

Shirley Hazzard

#10. The aspects you are willing to ignore are more important than the aspects you are willing to accept.

Erik Naggum

#11. Her parents had basically abdicated their roles as guardians and she was building a bomb. In order to kill a poodle.

Kristen Tracy

#12. The traditional media [in China] is still heavily controlled by the government; social media offers an opening to let the steam out a little bit. But because you don't have many other openings, the heat coming out of this opening is sometimes very strong, active and even violent.

Yang Lan

#13. Possibility, infinity, beauty
none of those words were right. [ ... ] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this? this phantom life streaking like a phosphorescent hound at the edges of your ruin?

Haven Kimmel

#14. Zeroth law: You must play the game
First law: You can't win
Second law: You can't break even
Third law: You can't quit the game.

C.P. Snow

#15. I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes.

Dan Rather