Sumidagawa Quotes

#1. You said nothing to me of the newspaper clippings."
"No, because you were displaying ... snippiness yesterday."
"Snippiness?" he asked.
"It's a word."
"I think not."
"I'll ask Books when we get back.

Lindsay Buroker

#2. I remember being amazed that death could so easily rise up from the nothing of a boyish afternoon, billow up like fog.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#3. Because appearance remains appearance and does not become thing in itself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#4. Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.

Billy Corgan

#5. I hate albums that are really happy. When I am really happy, I don't like to hear happy albums, and when I am really sad I don't wanna hear happy albums ... and I tend to gravitate towards the lonely and isolated anyway when I write.

David Bowie

#6. The past has too much knowledge embedded in it, and therefore it's best to forget it and start anew.

Tariq Ali

#7. After winning the Derby aged just 18-Why all the fuss? After all, the Derby is just another race.

Lester Piggott

#8. Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Albert Camus

#9. We have every indication that he died of fright.

William Peter Blatty

#10. My mama loved me more than anybody ever did.

George Jones

#11. I'm a bloody fun-seeker. Whatever the role is, I'll find a way to deliver the line that is confounding.

Lucy Lawless

#12. The idea of resolving conflicts by killing people (which is what war is) is not a just thing, a just idea. In that sense there is no such thing as "just war". But to wage a given war may be a just action.

Peter Kreeft

#13. Anywhere is home to the man with a fat bank account - the cops leave him alone.

Robert A. Heinlein

#14. Spiritual achievements are the consummation of holy aspirations. He

James Allen

#15. Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again.

Siobhan Fahey