Sadoshima Island Quotes

#1. The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. The critics are always right. The only way you shut them up is by winning.

Chuck Noll

#3. I shut my eyes and she was again the same as she used to be: she was the hiss of steam, the clink of a cup, she was a certain hour of the night and the promise of rest.

Graham Greene

#4. I am grateful to have spent 25 years at the 'International Herald Tribune' - a newspaper where I had unstinting support in being able to express myself freely and honestly.

Suzy Menkes

#5. Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness ...

Samuel Johnson

#6. Ryu laughed. "You know what I mean. A absentminded as you are, it's a true wonder you can be so focused when it comes to kendo."
"I'm also focused when I draw."
"Yeah. The problem is you're still drawing even when you don't have an actual pencil in your hand.

H.J. Brues

#7. The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

Gamaliel Bailey

#8. If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.

Jean De La Fontaine

#9. The Purpose of Time is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once

X.J. Kennedy

#10. If you tell yourself something over and over again, right or wrong, it becomes intuitive.

Sidney Coleman

#11. I just kept making records, touring in Europe a lot, and then I had a baby in 2006, so my life has been very, very much family-orientated.

Vonda Shepard

#12. Over time, the ghosts of things that happened start to turn distant; once they've cut you a couple of million times, their edges blunt on your scar tissue, they wear thin. The ones that slice like razors forever are the ghosts of things that never got the chance to happen.

Tana French

#13. The range of rhythms in prose is larger and grander than it is in poetry, and it can handle discursive ideas and plain information as well as character and story. It can do everything. I felt as though I had switched from a single reed instrument to a full orchestra.

Annie Dillard