Ryu Murakami Almost Transparent Blue Quotes

#1. I'm the only English thing they can vent their anger on.

Harold Holzer

#2. But Teatime was okay. True, after a few minutes talking to him your eyes began to water and you felt you needed to scrub your skin even on the inside, but no one was perfect, were they?

Terry Pratchett

#3. Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.

Henry Winkler

#4. Members of the court still talked in whispers of the lady-in-waiting who had accidentally worn mismatched stockings to an afternoon tea. They said she made a lovely rosebush, always festooned with stunning flowers in two slightly different colors of peach.
Beka didn't aspire to be a rosebush.

Deborah Blake

#5. Ed felt faint. Milk shake, as it turned out, was much less handy in your veins then, say, oxygen.

Francine Pascal

#6. Any nation that allows the government to dominate its monetary and economic policies will ultimately suffer grave consequences.

James Cook

#7. My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

Abraham Lincoln

#8. Too often we learn everything about how an African dies, but nothing about how he lives. But they learn and live and love and dream just like we do. That's not to say there are not a hell of a lot of problems in Africa. But there is also another side to that story.

Henning Mankell

#9. Strive for excellence in your calling, but as a subsidiary to this: Do not fail to enrich your whole capital as man. To be a giant, and not a dwarf in your profession, you must always be growing. The man that has ceased to go up intellectually has begun to go down.

William Matthews