Shunsaku Ban Quotes

#1. We write to find out what we know and what we want to say.

William Zinsser

#2. I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.

Antonio Banderas

#3. Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

Bob Ross

#4. Checkers taught me that a King is a man with another man on top of him. But life taught me that that's actually called a Queen.

Demetri Martin

#5. Remember this, son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.

Patrick Rothfuss

#6. For surely as each November has its April, mysteries only are significant; and one mystery-of-mysteries creates them all:
nothing false and possible is love
(who's imagined,therefore limitless)
love's to giving as to keeping's give;
as yes is to if,love is to yes

E. E. Cummings

#7. I have a stack of scripts that I've read - I'm in the lucky position where I get offered things - but I haven't wanted to direct many of them.

Nicole Holofcener

#8. And so to those who suggest that we are somehow 'harming' young women by encouraging them to take charge of their health we say this: We are not harming young women by educating them. We are arming them with information that they will carry with them throughout their lives.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#9. We often block our own blessings because we don't feel inherently good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or worthy enough ... You're worthy because you are born and because you are here. Your being here, your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.

Oprah Winfrey

#10. We live now in an era where normal values have been displaced. The good is called bad, the bad - good.

Anna Politkovskaya

#11. I think it's totally up to the individual if they'd like a private life or if they'd like to be in the public eye - it's a choice you can make.

Jade Jagger

#12. No I or individual is better than the team. I've scored no goals just on my own. Every goal I've ever scored has been because of someone else on my team, their excellence, their bravery. And I'm kind of the end product of a collection of a really good vibe, and feeling, and creativity on the field.

Abby Wambach

#13. I had become a bit annoyed with Fermi . . . when he suddenly offered to take wagers from his fellow scientists on whether or not the bomb would ignite the atmosphere, and if so, whether it would merely destroy New Mexico or destroy the world.

Richard Rhodes