Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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Yoga is a life-saver.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
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I write novels and other things.
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I was a gay kid who didn't know I was a gay kid, which was really challenging because you think there is something wrong with you until you understand what it is.
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It is fear that drives the hippies to seek the warmth, the protection, the safety of a herd. When they speak of merging themselves into a 'greater whole,' it is their fear that they hope to drown in the undemanding waves of unfastidious human bodies - and what they hope to fish out of that pool is the momentary illusion of an unearned personal significance.
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I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.
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Nobody should have to clean up what goes on around the base of most toilets.
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The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
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Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.
