Saigyo Poet Quotes

#1. Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.

Myron Tribus

#2. Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

Alan Dean Foster

#3. She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Stendhal

#4. I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

John Zorn

#5. If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.

Ron Livingston

#6. All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.

Edmund White

#7. Who'd have thought your screwball brother could have gone so serial-killer fucktwat insane?

Larissa Ione

#8. He would never abandon her, never leave a gaping hole, and even if he died someday, he was preserved like a lab specimen from all the alcohol he imbibed, so he wouldn't look or act much different.

Shannon Hale

#9. You play right up to your limit and then pass your limit and look back at your former limit and wave a hankie at it, embarking.

David Foster Wallace

#10. Forget you were born a Hindu, and don't be an American. Take the best of them both,

Paramahansa Yogananda

#11. Matthew would not like this, she had said. He would have liked it even less had he know how much Strike had liked it.

Robert Galbraith

#12. Shadow turned. Her eyes were wet; she smiled at him wanley. I'll be she loved you.

Catherine Fisher

#13. In fact, all of us are very susceptible to having our humiliating experiences turn to shame, especially when the person who is putting us down is someone with whom we have a valued relationship or someone whom we perceive to have more power than we do...

Brene Brown