Quotes About Machiya

#1. While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.

Susanna Rowson

#2. The subject of pain is the business I am in - to give meaning and shape to frustration and suffering. The existence of pain cannot be denied. I propose no remedies or excuses.

Louise Bourgeois

#3. Ever the pleasure of one has to be bought by the pain of the other, there better be no trade at all. A trade by which one gains and the other loses is a fraud.

Ayn Rand

#4. Integrating the beauty of seasonal change into the residence was a concept that remains true even today even in the more cramped, inner city machiya.

Judith Clancy

#5. If I try to cover too much ground, you start to get watered down and less interesting.

David Spade

#6. But it was a road I hadn't built, and I'm convinced you can't ever be completely happy walking on someone else's road. Someone else's path.

Amy Harmon

#7. Yesterday in a 25 to 24 vote, Republicans welcomed back Lott back into their leadership and named him minority whip. That is great for Trent. They say minority whip is a stepping stone to Grand Wizard.

Stephen Colbert

#8. Because our tragedy is that we diverge as countrymen further and further away from one another, like a space ship broken apart in flight which now drifts mournfully in isolated orbits, satellites to each other, planets none, communications faint.

Norman Mailer

#9. If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forced to spend a LOT of time dealing with a life you don't want.

Kevin Ngo