Stan Sakai Quotes

#1. In my mind, there's a time and a place for putting your foot down.

Jay Kay

#2. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#3. Kids just don't read any more. They spend much more time with video games. It's just hard to get kids to read anything. Book sales have dropped dramatically, too. I think 90% of the books are bought only by 5% of the US population.

Stan Sakai

#4. I think of how emotions seem so magnified when you're a child.
Joy is more all-encompassing, disappointments more crushing, hope more
palpable.

Emily Giffin

#5. To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment is the last indignity.

William Hazlitt

#6. There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life.

Saint Augustine

#7. I make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste.

Stan Sakai

#8. A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's.

Stan Sakai

#9. We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to be content living in a world with so much poverty and inequality? These questions motivate us to view the issue of inequality as central to human living.

Amartya Sen

#10. A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.

Stan Sakai

#11. This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it.

John C. Reilly

#12. All my knowledge comes from research.

Stan Sakai

#13. There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes of many folk tales have animals as their companions.

Stan Sakai

#14. The ideas can come from anywhere; the energy just comes from loving what I do.

Karen Walker

#15. With automobile accidents, mechanical failure is seldom the cause; and most often, operator error. I find the same to be true with corporate failings ... . the people are rarely the issue ... the shortcoming is most often found in the leadership.

Steve Maraboli

#16. I contemplate the bones for a while then turn away. I have work to do. Next year I will have an odako that is bigger, grander, more beautiful than anyone has ever seen. Next year.

Stan Sakai