Nishimatsu Japan Quotes

#1. Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics.

Libba Bray

#2. Possession of a friend should be with the spirit: the spirit's never absent: it sees daily whoever it likes.

Seneca.

#3. Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.

Simon Mawer

#4. Henry of England had all the virtues and all the faults, and solved the contradiction by making scapegoats and sin-eaters of half his entourage.

Dorothy Dunnett

#5. I wonder how it is that we are all connected despite our tremendous differences.

Sarah Ruhl

#6. Especially on television, it's not so much a patriarchy; it always seems that there's a smart, strong woman calling the shots, and her doofus husband. In the sitcom world, it's almost a cliche that the women have the common sense, going back to 'The Honeymooners.'

Jake Weber

#7. It was wise to put bureaucrats in windowless offices.

Helen Phillips

#8. I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman.

Charlize Theron

#9. It's not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.

Brandon Sanderson

#10. Distressed properties are often vacant and in disrepair, and thus sold at significant discounts. As the share of distressed sales grows, home prices fall.

Mark Zandi