Nese Quotes

#1. New York City vagrant:
"What sort of 'nese are you people? Are you Chinese, or Japanese, or Javanese?"
Kakuzo Okakura responds:
"We are Japanese gentleman. But what sort of 'key are you? Are you a Yankee, or a donkey, or a monkey?

Okakura Kakuzo

#2. Let your attacker worry about his life. Don't hold back. Strike no more after he is incapable of further action, but see that he is stopped.

Jeff Cooper

#3. Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Jesus becomes the captive of the hysterically religious, the chronically fearful, the insecure and even the neurotic among us, or he becomes little more than a fading memory, the symbol of an age that is no more and a nostalgic reminder of our believing past. To me, neither option is worth pursuing.

John Shelby Spong

#5. Mat snorted. "I don't want to be any bloody hero.

Robert Jordan

#6. We took pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed ... But we're going back next week.

Groucho Marx

#7. In my office I have a sign that says, 'Don't think. Just write!' and that's how I work. I try not to worry about each word, or even each sentence or paragraph. For me, stories evolve. Writing is a process. I rewrite each sentence, each manuscript, many times.

David A. Adler

#8. A sidewalk vendor who was selling hubcaps, rhinestone-glittery straight razors, and Lone Star State flags embossed with the words DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS.

Stephen King

#9. I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names.

Helen Oyeyemi

#10. Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.

Carl Honore