Yamanote Quotes

#1. Foreigners who think of Japan as a polite society have never ridden the Yamanote at rush hour. The

Barry Eisler

#2. He invited me to his apartment in the wee hours one morning and pulled out a set of children's building blocks. It seems he used to ride around and around on the Yamanote Line with them, building castles on the floor of the train.

Ryu Murakami

#3. Give the citizens of our fair seaport a real vote and they will do one of three things: vote for their own tribe, vote for the Islamists, or vote for whoever paid them the most money.

G. Willow Wilson

#4. If you're leaving your family behind, you better believe in what you're singing.

Jon Foreman

#5. I know it's corny - but I love 'Jingle Bells!'

Dolly Parton

#6. I had to wonder whether it was possible that this wasn't already decided for me, and if maybe, just maybe, this was my one last chance to try and prove it. There was no way to know. There never is. But I reached out and took it anyway.

Sarah Dessen

#7. In truth it matters less what we do ... than how we do it and why.

Donna Farhi

#8. Most human beings are, unfortunately, ugly enough without putting glasses upon them, and to disfigure any of the really beautiful faces that we have with such contrivances is surely as bad as putting an import tax upon art. As for putting glasses upon a child it is enough to make the angels weep.

William H. Bates

#9. What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views.

Richard Dawkins

#10. Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?

Desiderius Erasmus

#11. Producing quality compost is the most important job on the organic farm. A lot of the problems I see on farms I visit could be solved by making better compost.

Eliot Coleman