Wataya Quotes

#1. Noboru Wataya,
Where are you?
Did the wind-up bird
Forget to wind your spring?

Haruki Murakami

#2. The daily mindfulness, consistency, and discipline is ultimately more important than the amount of time. In other words, it's more about quality than quantity. If you use 15 minutes effectively, you'll accomplish more than you would be able to with two hours of unfocused, random actions.

Simon S. Tam

#3. Love should require both partners to be very best at all times.

Gillian Flynn

#4. I've read that under trauma, that you have this ability to kind of disconnect from the experience.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#5. The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth

Sheryl Sandberg

#6. You can do fascinating things with the tricks memory can play and tell. People can come to believe things which didn't happen at all if they're told them enough times.

Paula Hawkins

#7. I often have a theme in mind when I'm starting. I know that I want everything to be in a world of, say, evolution, or guilt.

Charlie Kaufman

#8. If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself, but of thinking of the question that is raised.

Rene Magritte

#9. People can be really mean - they say the most vicious things.

Rutina Wesley

#10. Our world is physical. Learn to play defense - ignore the head and keep your eyes on the body.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#11. I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.

Kevin Barry

#12. I make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#13. Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.

Ann Landers

#14. No punching?" he asked.
"No."
"No kicking?"
"No."
"How about arm wrestling?"
"No. And before you ask, we've avoided Slug Bug, Slap Bets, and any and all Dance-Offs."
Fate Succumbs

Tammy Blackwell

#15. Will you give up Heathcliff hereafter, or will you give up me? It is impossible for you to be my friend and his at the same time; and I absolutely require to know which you choose.

Emily Bronte