Oshima Quotes

#1. Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.

Douglas B. Reeves

#2. But people need to cling to something," Oshima says. "They have to. You're doing the same, even though you don't realize it. It's like Goethe said: Everything's a metaphor.

Haruki Murakami

#3. I've always had a sort of intuition that for every hour you spend with other human beings you need x number of hours alone. Now, what that x represents I don't really know, whether it be two and seven-eights or seven and two-eights, but it's a substantial ratio.

Glenn Gould

#4. Liberals should not overplay this weapons of mass destruction card, because you want me to tell you the truth? Most of us are not going to care if they don't find these weapons of mass destruction. It's enough for a lot of us to see those kids smiling on that street again.

Dennis Miller

#5. That's something you'll have to decide for yourself.. I think you have a right to live however you want. Whether you're fifteen or fifty-one, what does it matter? But unfortunately society doesn't agree.
~Oshima, page 198

Haruki Murakami

#6. You don't know if she shares the same strong, pure feelings you have for her," Oshima comments. I shake my head. "It hurts to think about it.

Haruki Murakami

#7. Oshima once used the term hollow men. Well, that's exactly what I've become. There's a void inside me, a blank that's slowly expanding, devouring what's left of who I am. I can hear it happening. I'm totally lost, my identity dying. There's no direction where I am, no sky, no ground.

Haruki Murakami

#8. My hatred for Japanese cinema includes absolutely all of it.

Nagisa Oshima

#9. like anyone bringing up the past." "What's the name of the song?" "'Kafka on the Shore.'" Oshima says. "'Kafka on the Shore'?" "That's correct, Kafka Tamura.

Haruki Murakami

#10. To the leaders of the cinema still to come, I can offer only a few words drawn from my modest experience. You must ceaselessly formulate and sharpen your critical views, both of others and of yourselves.

Nagisa Oshima

#11. When the qualities that now confer leadership have become universal, there will no longer be leaders and followers, and democracy will have been realized at last.

Bertrand Russell

#12. Nothing that is expressed is obscene. What is obscene is what is hidden.

Nagisa Oshima

#13. I do not like to be called a samurai, but I admit that I have an image of myself as a fighter. I would like to fight against all authorities and powers.

Nagisa Oshima

#14. Hoshino found Oshima an appealing young man. Intelligent, well groomed, obviously from a good family. And quite kind. He's got to be gay, right? Not that Hoshino cared. To each his own, was his thinking. Some men talk with stones, and some men sleep with other men.

Haruki Murakami

#15. And so they fought. And so they laughed. Friends. And before they knew it, They were inseparable.

Masashi Kishimoto

#16. If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.

Richard Cecil

#17. The Gita is a bouquet composed of the beautiful flowers of spiritual truths collected from the Vedas and the Upanishads.

Swami Vivekananda

#18. People need to cling to something," Oshima says. "They have to. You're doing the same, even though you don't realise it.

Haruki Murakami

#19. HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.

Ambrose Bierce

#20. Don't wait the time will never be right.

Napoleon Hill

#21. The ground under their feet rolled violently as if a giant snake was pushing through.

A.O. Peart

#22. National Guard soldiers, as you know, give up their jobs, their time with their family, make sacrifices to make sure this country is safe.

Todd Tiahrt

#23. Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

Michael Jackson

#24. In the south of France the phones cut in and out, the electricity isn't particularly reliable. I think many people would get very irritated with that life.

Peter Mayle

#25. During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

Honore De Balzac

#26. Doing what you want to do is life.

Wallace D. Wattles

#27. Her skin retained a faint warmth, but it was already fading away.

Haruki Murakami