Nobuteru Taniguchi Quotes

#1. The sacred lamp burns to give light

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. What is real and what is not? Can you tell me or I you? Perhaps we shall never know more than this - that to think a thing is to make it true.

P.L. Travers

#3. But deep down she said to herself, Franz may be strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people he lives with, the people he loves, he's weak. Franz's weakness is called goodness.

Milan Kundera

#4. Question: What is something you sometimes want so badly you'd search for it your whole life? Answer: Your past Warning: Never look for your past. It always comes looking for you.

John Nuck

#5. Don't be afraid, the darkness you're in is no greater than the darkness inside your own body ...

Jose Saramago

#6. You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.

Andrew Jackson

#7. Why not imagine a talk with a pumpkin? Why not imagine going off for a drive with a friendly pumpkin, a companion who would not, after all, answer back; who would agree with everything you said, and would at the end of the day appear on your plate as a final gesture of friendship?

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults that it is very much in their interest to discover the weaknesses of their elders.

Allan Bloom

#9. Young girls often feel strong, courageous, highly creative, and powerful until they begin to receive undermining sexist messages that encourage them to conform to conventional notions of femininity. To conform they have to give up power.

Bell Hooks