Okada Quotes

#1. Eventually, Malta Kano withdrew her hand from mine and took several deep breaths. Then she nodded several times. "Mr. Okada," she said, "I believe that you are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur. The disappearance of your cat is only the beginning.

Haruki Murakami

#2. And my inability to share this anger with anybody in the lobby aroused in me a profound sense of isolation. - Toru Okada

Haruki Murakami

#3. One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It's strange.

Haruki Murakami

#4. When we forget where we've been, we can't marvel at where we're going! HS/el

Evinda Lepins

#5. We each get one life that is our own. We each in our own way struggle to get ahead, love, grieve, and lose our loved ones to death.

Kyung-Sook Shin

#6. I want my stories to be understood and enjoyed by anyone, so I need 'beta-readers' who will tell me when the plot is working or not working, and when my writing is concise or vague.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#7. Whether you like me or not, the fact that you're precious to me won't change, no matter what.

Mari Okada

#8. Oh," said Catherine, with some eagerness, "it doesn't take long to like a person - when once you begin.

Henry James

#9. In elections, you can't tell the outcome until you open the ballot boxes.

Katsuya Okada

#10. They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.

John Milton

#11. I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astral body or whatever travel all through the audience and dig whatever it's like out there.

Bill Kreutzmann

#12. Know that the happiness we feel when we bring joy to others is the greatest happiness in the world.

Mokichi Okada

#13. Quite honestly, most of us don't live in a world with perfect loam.

Mark Whitelaw

#14. The depth of the middle class is waning as the polarization of society is in progress.

Katsuya Okada

#15. Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#16. The only thing that can change Japan is a change in government.

Katsuya Okada

#17. Gratitude gives birth to gratitude and ingratitude creates more ingratitude.

Mokichi Okada

#18. The overall situation has now become clear the DPJ has suffered a great setback.

Katsuya Okada

#19. Well, you have to wait for somebody who gets it right.' said Luna. 'That way you learn, you see?

J.K. Rowling

#20. I always felt that's why people buy records anyhow is because they get that vicarious excitement and thrill that they don't get unless they buy your record.

Cosimo Matassa

#21. It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

Anna Julia Cooper

#22. Flowers said, "I got two bottles of water in the car."
"Get them. And get your gun," Lucas said.
"The gun? You think?"
"No. I just like to see you wearing the fuckin' gun for a change," Lucas said. "C'mon, let's get moving.

John Sandford

#23. There is a period between each night and day when one dies for a few hours, neither dreaming nor thinking nor tossing nor hating nor loving, but dying for a little while because life progresses in just such a way.

John Okada

#24. The situation now is not easy. But I believe in the good sense of the Japanese people.

Katsuya Okada

#25. We don't merely want to see beauty: we want to become part of it.

Tobin Hart

#26. After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

Reggie Jackson