Ushimitsudoki Quotes

#1. You move your life across the country and make a commitment to a place, and to a genre, and then you realize that neither the place nor the genre might be what you thought they were going to be, or that the world you thought you were going to find in school doesn't actually exist.

John D'Agata

#2. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

Edward L. Bernays

#3. Casey was the better team and the better team won.

Bill Evans

#4. Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.

Hillary Clinton

#5. When I am listening to Vivaldi or Japanese music or making spaghetti at 3 in the morning and realize that I don't have the proper sauce for it, fame is of no use.

Saul Leiter

#6. Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

Neil Gaiman

#7. The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other. He's interested in maps and plans and languages and codes.

Philip Pullman

#8. I want him to take life by the horns and ride it for all it's worth.

Amy Harmon

#9. The lights of the town and of the harbour and of the boats seemed like a phantom net floating there to mark something that had sunk.

Virginia Woolf

#10. There's nothing surprising about me. I'm dull. I am a fan of the New York subway. I love it.

Brian F. O'Byrne

#11. In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through the goal net, and the poor goalkeeper in front of the net.

Orhan Pamuk