Ritsu Tainaka Quotes

#1. Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.

Benjamin Whorf

#2. Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name.

Frederic Goudy

#3. He had the kind of character in which prudence is a vice, and good advice the most dangerous nourishment.

Edith Wharton

#4. My potential salvation ... must remain an unswerving commitment to treat generality only as it emerges from little things that arrest us and open our eyes with "aha"
while direct, abstract, learned assaults upon generalities usually glaze them over.

Stephen Jay Gould

#5. Extreme visual clarity, tunnel vision, diminished sound, and the sense that time is slowing down. this is how the human body reacts to extreme stress.

Malcolm Gladwell

#6. Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars. (Interview with Don Swaim of CBS Radio-1986)

James Clavell

#7. How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?

Sonia Rykiel

#8. For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

Diane Arbus

#9. It's precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive - or at least a partial sense of it.

Haruki Murakami

#10. Essentially, love is the Donnie Darko of feelings: Anyone who brags, "I, like, totally get it man," is either full of crap or really, really high (or they watched the commentary on the DVD).

Andrea Lavinthal

#11. Being drunk really brought out her inner vicious bitch.

Sarra Manning

#12. I never saw myself as beautiful. I can look back and see it now, but then? Never.

Marianne Faithfull

#13. Life is a choice. Your choices each day determine what outcomes happen in your life. It is by choice, not by chance, that will determine your life. An Unstoppable Life begins by taking responsibility for your choices.

Thomas Narofsky