Ueda Quotes

#1. I feel like a fool, so I'm going to stop troubling you.

Sara Quin

#2. Holding on to anger is like poisoning yourself and hoping someone else will die.

Gautama Buddha

#3. Every essay - the subject matter of every essay - is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist is writing about his or her view of the world.

Alan Lightman

#4. I was very burned out after Buffy. It was exhausting. It took me from essentially 18 on the pilot to being 24 and married when we finished. That show was my life. I was doing movies on the hiatuses and on weekends, but I needed to explore and live that gypsy lifestyle.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#5. Though I cannot flee from the world of corruption, I can prepare tea with water from a mountain stream and put my heart to rest

Ueda Akinari

#6. Unless you deplete lots of muscle glycogen every day, there is no physiological reason for you to consume high levels of carbohydrates. In fact, carbohydrates are not required in the human diet for survival the way fat and protein are.

Mark Sisson

#7. Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.

Akinari Ueda

#8. I have an interest in making first-person games,

Fumito Ueda

#9. The moon glows on the river, wind rustles the pines.
Long night clear evening
what are they for?

Akinari Ueda

#10. Both of them are close to how I'd envisioned them. In Ico's case the design and in SotC's the visual look were very close to what I'd imagined.

Fumito Ueda

#11. I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.

Joan Cusack

#12. There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary.

Fumito Ueda

#13. Are you telling me we're fling into Jupiter?"

"No, we'll probably crash into Io first," Shirosaki said.

"The thought of diving head first into a sea of magma doesn't exactly turn me on.

Sayuri Ueda

#14. Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Thomas Jefferson

#15. In friendship, bond not with a shallow man.

Ueda Akinari

#16. Success must never be measured by how much money you have.

Zig Ziglar

#17. Without discussing it with his mother, Anton went up to his teacher, Miss Katballe, and informed her that after seven years he was now quitting school. It was the best day of her life, she replied. With unexpected politeness he bowed, thanked her, and said, likewise.

Carsten Jensen

#18. Without a constant livelihood, there will be no constant heart.

Akinari Ueda

#19. I think we're going back to the way things use to be, before a bunch of European intellectuals in tights decided to draw a line between what's rational and what's not. I don't think our ancestors thought the distinction was necessary.
(pg 370)

G. Willow Wilson

#20. Wealth without pride is the way of the great sage.

Akinari Ueda