Omikami Quotes

#1. Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

T. S. Eliot

#2. You can't argue with popularity. Well, you could, but you'd be wrong!

Robbie Williams

#3. When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

Henry Rollins

#4. Now celebrity has taken on a holy status all of its own, and we look to the stars to provide us with the transcendental experience that was once achieved through religion.

Alison Jackson

#5. I can't write story-songs, like I couldn't write a Bob Dylan or Tom Waits song. I can only write whatever weird phrases come into my head, and hope that they're good.

Jay Watson

#6. Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear.

P.D. James

#7. Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

Charlie Chaplin

#8. Universities simply unable to play judge, jury and executioner when they're already having trouble playing educator. Resources are limited and colleges must put their focus on their primary objective: education.

Claire McCaskill

#9. According to our belief, Japan was founded by the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami, who is revered by the entire nation for her all-pervading virtue, and from whom our Imperial House is descended.

Sadao Araki

#10. When you're an actor working in the theater, you would never say anything to the writer, never alter the dialogue, never dream to ask for changes.

Jill Hennessy

#11. The man she'd glimpsed that morning, and the one who'd cared enough to put his arms around a packmate who was hurting, he was dangerous, someone who spoke to her soul beyond the primitive tug of sex.

Nalini Singh

#12. I have vowed to heal in the name of all beings. This vow is being fulfilled, Sofia, with the testimony of this book. I have shared this life experience with you in order to help my readers better recognize the power of their own mind.

Phakyab RINPOCHE

#13. One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Elizabeth Moon

#14. He shook his head. Everyone fears me, except you, Latro. When a man is respected, no one wants to plant a dagger in his back. When he is feared, everyone thinks upon it, and tests the point.

Gene Wolfe

#15. When I write Superboy and other DC characters, it's about boiling them down to core concepts.

Jeff Lemire