Yoshino Quotes

#1. Returning to where
It used to see blossoms,
My mind, changed,
Will stay on at Yoshino ...
Home now, and see anew.

Saigyo

#2. Out there was a man who had murdered his daughter. And another who had stepped on her heart. His hatred should be aimed at the one who killed her, but all he could picture was Yoshino being literally kicked out of that car.

Shuichi Yoshida

#3. Last year, Yoshino,
I walked away bending branches
To point me to blossoms
Which now are everywhere and I can
Go where I've never been before.

Saigyo

#4. To read Shakespeare is to feel encompassed -- the plays contain practically every word I know, practically every character type I have ever met, and practically every idea I have ever had.

Kenji Yoshino

#5. The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten the words, so that I can talk to him?

Zhuangzi

#6. He still, all these years later, shines brighter to me than other people. Even after I got over him, I was never able to extinguish the fire completely, as if it's a pilot light that will remain small and controlled, but very much alive.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#7. Orwell was almost exactly wrong in a strange way. He thought the world would end with Big Brother watching us, but it ended with us watching Big Brother.

Alan Moore

#8. No one has written adequately of what happens when enough of the body's naked surface is pressed against another human being's. It is a slow dismantling of ego, a suspension of the instinct to distinguish Me from Not Me.

Kenji Yoshino

#9. I learned that money's not happiness. The more famous I am and the more money I make, the closer I stay to my family and friends that I've known since junior high school. True happiness to me is the connection with fellow human beings I've known for a long time.

Dat Phan

#10. She was downstairs now in the living room watching TV' with a mug of hot chocolate and a fried egg and pineappel

pineappel?

yes pineappel- sandwich.

Katharine McEwen

#11. The right to use my friend as a weapon. That is the sinful crown I shall adorn. I accept this 'guilt.

Hiroyuki Yoshino

#12. Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

Blaise Pascal

#13. The electric network selling itself: The medium is the message

Allen Ginsberg

#14. Leaders learn to leverage the problems that never go away in a way to create progress for the organization.

Andy Stanley

#15. When I was 15, they changed the playground rules because I was dominating everything and blocking everything that came my way.

Moses Malone

#16. I write what I would like to read.

Kathleen Norris

#17. Being an actor is a lot more involved than many people realize; there are hundreds of ways to play any character. Even for a stylized bad guy, there are 4 or 5 different personalities I can play off the top of my head without thinking - better and more experienced actors can do dozens or hundreds.

Conan Stevens

#18. Alimony is the curse of the writing class.

Norman Mailer

#19. It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.

Margaret Anderson