Shimomura Miki Quotes

#1. Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#3. Leave it to the Americans to use love as a motivational tool while challenging insects to declare whether they are with you or against you.

Taiyo Fujii

#4. Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.

Roger Scruton

#5. They tend to forget that nothing in a polarized universe can exist without its opposite being present. -

Frank Herbert

#6. Lines from an old film came back to him unbidden: That I should want you at all suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. You're an improbable person, and so am I.

Douglas Preston

#7. I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement.

Francis Ford Coppola

#8. In a single week, there might be committees, caucuses, colloquium, congresses, and conventions variously coming together to establish codes, set courses of action, levy complaints, and generally clamor about the world's oldest problems in its newest nomenclature.

Amor Towles

#9. Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.

Brian Tracy

#10. I hadn't noticed before how his mouth lifted up at one corner, as if he found life too humorous to stop smiling completely. Such a smile should be preserved forever in a drawing.

Sharon Biggs Waller

#11. Please, I'd love to meet the guy you couldn't handle, and give him and award.

Gena Showalter