Shoda Chisato Quotes

#1. I closed my eyes and wished I believed in something enough to pray to it.

George Alec Effinger

#2. Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.

Alison Bechdel

#3. When I was 14, I entered British Vogue's annual talent contest and got a special mention. I went up to London to meet the editors and wrote about it in my high school magazine.

Hamish Bowles

#4. If you want to know how Hillary Clinton could try to distance herself from President Obama's much-criticized foreign policy, listen closely to the words of her former top strategist, Anne-Marie Slaughter.

Nina Easton

#5. I'll have a stamp on me forever. There will always be questions. I brought new fans to the Orioles' organization, and that's good.

Eric Davis

#6. Clothing creates the illusion that bodies fit an aesthetically pleasing norm. And that illusion depends on getting the fit right. Garments that bunch, pull, or sag call attention to figure flaws and often make people look worse than they would without clothes.

Virginia Postrel

#7. Love isn't idiotic. It's hard and messy, confusing and wonderful. But to love and be loved... that's all that matters.

Jennifer Donnelly

#8. The idea that the brain is not fully formed until you are almost 30 years old has already been introduced, and the Supreme Court already has based two rulings on it.

Alan Alda

#9. Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.

K.J. Parker

#10. I could use the company but I can't go through the pain of getting it.

Howard Jacobson

#11. Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

Jeanette Winterson

#12. Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii.

Michael Martin Hammer

#13. I do have aspirations when it comes to directing, I suppose, but in a sort of a vague way. It would probably come about if I found a project that I really felt passionate about.

Guy Pearce

#14. I get all of my comedy from CNN.

Rob Corddry