Yoshii Restaurant Quotes

#1. Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.

Nina Bawden

#2. When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders - women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has changed their lives. They feel they can do anything.

Kathrine Switzer

#3. A quick smile is more seductive than a slinky dress.

Mason Cooley

#4. Do you not know that there is nothing the eye can see that can make it shed the tears of blood? Do you not know that there is no loss we cannot overcome?

Chigozie Obioma

#5. Her smile was like laughter to me - it bubbled in like champagne.

Atticus

#6. The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

Oscar Wilde

#7. Every step you take - everywhere you stand - the ground beneath your feet is tainted by some kind of casualty. It's an inescapable fact. Nothing is untouched by death. Nothing.

J.M. Darhower

#8. The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz ... you are always expected to do your own material, which is a strange thing to do if you're a poor composer but a great player.

Keith Jarrett

#9. After a week, it's better. I miss her. I mourn her. But some peace has returned. She had been so unattainable - so young, so much a citizen of a different era - that it is hard to feel fully deprived.

Scott Turow

#10. There is the joy of one's own salvation. I thought, when I first tasted that, it was the most delicious joy I had ever known, and that I could never get beyond it. But I found, afterward, there was something more joyful that, namely, the joy of the salvation of others.

Dwight L. Moody

#11. Life really just barely escapes me though the certainty comes to me that life is other and has a hidden style

Clarice Lispector