Wakaba Quotes

#1. Wakaba...is the one who fills the void in me. He is me. If he's not here, I can't be a complete human.

Tarako Kotobuki

#2. 92. Eventually I confess to a friend some details about my weeping - its intensity, its frequency. She says (kindly) that she thinks we sometimes weep in front of a mirror not to inflame self-pity, but because we want to feel witnessed in our despair.

Maggie Nelson

#3. Character is what someone does, much more than who they are. I can be sarcastic or I can be fearful, but it doesn't really matter until there's a story - until someone comes in and holds us hostage.

Mitchell Hurwitz

#4. My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

John Adams

#5. I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them.

Tom Wolfe

#6. I made sure no butt cheek hung out. You know, the original Daisy, Catherine Bach's shorts were shorter than mine.

Jessica Simpson

#7. Grove Health Center, trilled the woman on the end of the line. She had the vocal automisation that comes to people whose job description might as well read: 'Ceaseless repetition'.

Will Self

#8. Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.

Curtis Hanson

#9. Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array and support a military force for its own protection.

Oliver Ellsworth

#10. He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly successful, have acquired an entirely different kind of culture, literary or artistic, for which their professional specialisation has no use but by which their conversation profits.

Marcel Proust

#11. The harder life is, the closer to life we are

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#12. Stop looking outside for help. You're sourced and fuelled and funded by a renewable resource, which is within you. It never runs out. It is your Essence. It's your life.

Michael Beckwith

#13. There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.

Benjamin Booker

#14. Directors don't always create, they can also destroy with too many demands.

Abbas Kiarostami

#15. Ignorance is a fools castle.

Anonymous

#16. I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.

Paul Cezanne