Nishijima Hidetoshi Quotes

#1. I've spent so much of my adult life in relationships that it's actually quite pleasant to be alone at last. I turned thirty-six the other day, which staggers me when I think about it.

Matt Roper

#2. Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously guilt-laden man. He was drenched in a sense of shame about his being featured as the preeminent leader of African-American culture and the civil rights movement.

Michael Eric Dyson

#3. Sometimes he found himself resenting the others' definition of him, the reductiveness and immovability of it:

Hanya Yanagihara

#4. I've heard the sound of 70 condoms being scraped over the floor at the British Museum. It feels like being an adventurer. Why would you stay in your living room if you could go out and experience things no one's ever experienced?

Herbert

#5. Status is about counting, numbering, ranking and ultimately about excluding.

Andy Crouch

#6. You shine like the Milky Way. Now, there are those who might try to take that from you, but you don't have to give it away. Keep on shining.

Ellen Hopkins

#7. There's nothing to be gained, and much to be lost, in trying to bend every child to match a one-size-fits-all notion of what it means to be a boy or girl of a specific age. Better to set a few parameters and then go with the flow. Call it 'jazz parenting.'

Ezekiel Emanuel

#8. I'm a woman. That means I break hard. And mend like a motherfucker; all sexy and full of heartbreakingly beautiful scars.

Staceyann Chin

#9. I am the Golux, the only Golux in the world and not a mere device

James Thurber

#10. You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.

Ian Fleming

#11. I think very few people are gay. I'm a two-percenter myself.

Andrew Sullivan

#12. For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable.

Walt Whitman

#13. I realize now that no simple, single-factor theory of depression will ever work. Depression is partly in our genes, partly in our childhood experience, partly in our way of thinking, partly in our brains, partly in our ways of handling emotions. It affects our whole being.

Richard O'Connor

#14. He couldn't keep his eyes off her face, wished she'd take off those damned sunglasses so he could see the eyes he'd known so well.

Ken Grimwood