Toshiko Quotes

#1. I started to listen to Japanese jazz musicians when I went to high school. Some people I listened to were Yosuke Yamashita, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Sadao Watanabe.

Hiromi

#2. Curiouser and curiouser, he says. I smile at the reference. Carroll was totally a witch. The secrets of our world are written into that book.

Danielle Ellison

#3. Is it from your cheek that I took the seed?

Markus Zusak

#4. You are not an artist simply because you paint or sculpt or make pots that cannot be used. An artist is a poet in his or her own medium. And when an artist produces a good piece, that work has mystery, an unsaid quality; it is alive.

Toshiko Takaezu

#5. If it is true that men are better than women because they are stronger, why aren't our sumo wrestlers in the government?

Toshiko Kishida

#6. I couldn't help but feel a sick sadistic joy as I queued up the C4. So many people were going to die today, and so many families were going to be in devastated ruins tomorrow. They would feel what they made me feel.

Quil Carter

#7. In my life I see no difference between making pots, cooking and growing vegetables. They are all so related. However, there is a need for me to work in clay. It is so gratifying and I get so much joy from it, and it gives me many answers in my life.

Toshiko Takaezu

#8. History is no longer just a chronicle of kings and statesmen, of people who wielded power, but of ordinary women and men engaged in manifold tasks. Women's history is an assertion that women have a history.

Toshiko Kishida

#9. I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.

Trisha Yearwood

#10. He saw that the inmost recesses of her soul, that had always hitherto lain open before him, were closed against him.

Leo Tolstoy

#11. The Playwright was excited in the way a child is excited on Christmas morning. I liked this. Most people didn't get excited about anything other than their own discontent.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#12. I never had the sense of myself as an accomplished artist, and I always had to work three times as hard as anyone else to make mypieces as good as they could be. I am never completely satisfied. There always seems to be something just beyond my reach.

Toshiko Takaezu