Sakamichi Onoda Quotes

#1. All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.

William Hurt

#2. Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself to breathe. Astonish Me is a treasure of small surprises.

Maria Semple

#3. Passing thoughts are like passing gas. They both arrive with a rumble, and the bad ones linger a little too long.

Maximus Freeman

#4. A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.

Bo Bennett

#5. The sheet of life's music runs in front of us in endless reams, but without the ears that God grants us they don't seem to spawn a single sound.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#6. Pause and remember - At any moment you have the power to say 'this is enough' and radically change the course of your destiny. Have the faith and courage to follow your hearts calling.

Jennifer Young

#7. Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

George Bernard Shaw

#8. I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.

Neil Gaiman

#9. There will be no funeral! Before I get too old and ill, I'll go to South America and live among the Pemon people and meditate. When the time is right, they can throw my body into the volcano.

Brian Blessed

#10. Poetry increases the feeling for reality.

Wallace Stevens

#11. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you'd be okay.

Jojo Moyes

#12. It's Fendi. French, Fendi, both start with an F ... I fell in love with it. Smells like grown-man cologne.

French Montana

#13. We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.

Nan Hayworth

#14. When some smart ass asks you if you're driving, you say, 'Nope, just kicking the tires.' You have to make sure you actually kick them all on your way around to the passenger side. Otherwise it's like lying.

Elle Lothlorien

#15. Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying.

Nick Nolte