Zaibatsu Quotes

#1. If you believe the journalists, he's the single wealthiest individual, period. As rich as some zaibatsu. But there's the catch, really: is he an individual? In the sense that you are, or I am? No.

William Gibson

#2. When you make the schedule, you're not planning on playing deep into every single week, or at least I haven't in the past. I'm not physically or mentally ready to pick up my bags and go to Monte Carlo. I definitely have to look at what's best for my chances at (at the French Open).

Andy Roddick

#3. Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

Cheryl Strayed

#4. Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that he would bring dessert home. His instruction to his partner in crime is an entire moral manifesto in six little words: 'Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

Sarah Vowell

#5. Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?

John Updike

#6. Autistic children are extremely bright if you can connect to them and bring them into our world. Socially it's really hard for them, but it can happen.

Tisha Campbell-Martin

#7. She buried her ears into the calm of his heartbeat, and in a matter of seconds; fell terribly in love with the way her loneliness fell softly and suddenly, asleep, in his chest.

Christopher Poindexter

#8. Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking.

Chris Crutcher

#9. I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.

Virginia Woolf

#10. I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.

Bjork