Sumako Matsui Quotes

#1. One is punished by the very things by which he sins.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#2. The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity

Martin Luther King Jr.

#3. People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.

Rowan Atkinson

#4. When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.

Colin Wilson

#5. If diversity is O.K. for God, it ought to be O.K. for Republicans.

J. C. Watts

#6. They say once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially 'colonised' it. So technically, I colonised Mars.
In your face, Neil Armstrong!

Andy Weir

#7. The Italians always know that I'm not Italian.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#8. Miriva refused to believe that human decency should be a privilege given only to a small few, and when she complained to her mother that she did not want to be a broodmare for the sake of alliances between the villages, her mother slapped her and sent her to the fields to pick mehazi beans

Ash Gray

#9. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

#10. If one tells the truth about being a scoundrel, is he a scoundrel at all?

Sarah MacLean

#11. One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.

Will McDonough