No No Boy John Okada Quotes

#1. I think one of the reasons I've done so much period work is because I feel so depressed by how society chooses to represent women in contemporary work.

Romola Garai

#2. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
(Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)

Gustave Flaubert

#3. Line cooks are the heroes.

Anthony Bourdain

#4. Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!

Eleanor Roosevelt

#5. Liberals despise the rule of law because it interferes with their ability to rule by mob. They love to portray themselves as the weak taking on the powerful. But it is the least powerful who suffer the most once the rule of law is gone.

Ann Coulter

#6. Many of my short fictions use theatre as a metaphor for situations in which characters find themselves estranged from the larger, uncontrollable world that may or may not lie beyond the proscenium arch.

Norman Lock

#7. For, after all, in science one achieves the greatest impact (and often the greatest headlines) not by going along with the herd, but by bucking against it.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#8. The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul.

Anonymous

#9. It was as if, before she'd met him, her blood had circulated grayly around her body, and now ir was all oxygenated and red. She was petrified of becoming the half-alive person she'd been before.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#10. What I cannot understand about the Russian," Roosevelt complained, "is the way he will lie when he knows perfectly well that you know he is lying.

Edmund Morris

#11. It's not because I don't want to hurt Delia's feelings. It's because when she is bruised, I'm the one who aches.

Jodi Picoult

#12. A relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy.

Barack Obama

#13. When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be thinner.' Those are stories. When there's no story, there's no suffering.

Byron Katie

#14. The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.

Mark Rothko