Yakuza Shun Akiyama Quotes

#1. I know that my fans will probably learn a lot about me by listening to my music, if they really listen to the lyrics.

Ariana Grande

#2. Great paintings have gradations, large and small ... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract convention.

Robert Genn

#3. You have my soul and I have your money

Charles Bukowski

#4. If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them.

John Darnielle

#5. The favorite thing I like to do is nothing. I'm such an expert at doing nothing. I have a boat. I make training films for the Coast Guard. I listen to a great deal of opera.

Charles Nelson Reilly

#6. In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#7. We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.

Evelyn Underhill

#8. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to LIVE.

George Mallory

#9. Twentysomethings who don't feel anxious and incompetent at work are usually overconfident or underemployed.

Meg Jay

#10. A hardship mentality can make us narrow and defensive. A success and prosperity mentality can make us selfish. An attitude of thankfulness to God, for what He gives us, can make us truly generous.

Charles R. Ringma

#11. Lift up yourselves, men, take yourselves out of the mire and hitch your hopes to the very stars themselves. Let no man pull you down, let no man destroy your ambition, because man is but your companion, your equal; man is your brother; he is not your Lord, he is not your sovereign master.

Marcus Garvey

#12. I wonder now ... were my tears for Alex and Al and all the others who had gone and who were yet to go? Or was I weeping for myself ... and those who would remain?

Farley Mowat