Sannomiya Station Quotes

#1. We no longer even understand the question whether change is by itself good or bad. We start out with the axiom that it is the norm. We do not see change as altering the order. We see change as being order itself-indeed the only order we can comprehend today is a dynamic, a moving, a changing one.

Peter Drucker

#2. Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

James Fenton

#3. we don't just react to the world as it is. We react to the world as we think it is - the

Martha N. Beck

#4. You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.

Ngaio Marsh

#5. One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.

Jeffrey Bernard

#6. Punctuality is one of the minor virtues which we do not acquire until later in life.

Virginia Woolf

#7. I really find that when I get on an airplane, I never drink anything but water, and I drink a ton of it. I like to sit in the window, but I'm always climbing over people to go to the bathroom. I'm that seatmate. But ya gotta do it. All about the water.

Elizabeth Banks

#8. If the universe had a beginning, its beginning, by the very condition of the cases, was supernatural; the laws of Nature cannot account for their own origin.

John Stuart Mill

#9. I hate the word 'production'. It's a ceremony, a ritual - you should go out of the theatre more human than when you went in.

Ariane Mnouchkine

#10. that feeling you might call "writer's block" is actually fear. The

Robert Maurer

#11. Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.

James Stockdale

#12. There are things better left untouched by words ...

Anna Kamienska