Vivian Komori Quotes

#1. I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving someone another person's prescription. How do you know that's what they need?

Sandra Cisneros

#2. When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side.

Florence Griffith Joyner

#3. If we seek the real source of the dance, if we go to nature, we find that the dance of the future is the dance of the past, the dance of eternity, and has been and always will be the same ... The movement of waves, of winds, of the earth is ever the same lasting harmony.

Isadora Duncan

#4. Contemplation within activity is a million times better than contemplation within stillness.

Hakuin Ekaku

#5. A lot of the people of the Midwest came from the Northeast. We're of the same stock. Yet something must have happened when we crossed the Ohio River Valley because I have sensed that there's more of an openness and flexibility of spirit out West.

Jane Hamilton

#6. There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers.

Benjamin Disraeli

#7. Britains still commemorate the Battle of Cable Street in London. There are still pop songs in Britain that reference Sir Oswald Mosley and his black shirts.

Rachel Maddow

#8. I like that show 'Ray Donovan' - I'm obsessed with that. He's in Hollywood, he's some kind of a fixer, but he's also kind of a thug. And 'Scandal,' the D.C. one with Kerry Washington.

Kim Gordon

#9. The field of financial innovation, without rules that tie it to human productive output will be the cause of the next revolution.

Said Elias Dawlabani

#10. I tried to learn. I wanted to learn to be righteous. I wanted to know. But I could only pretend.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#11. It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

Diane Ackerman