Yasunari Kawabata Quotes

But, drawn to her at that moment, he felt a quiet like the voice of the rain flow over him. He knew well enough that for her it was in fact no waste of effort, but somehow the final determination that it was had the effect of distilling and purifying the woman's existence.

Yasunari Kawabata

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• There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Good
  • You
  • Simple

• My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Life
  • School
  • Earth

• Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Nature
  • Space
  • Proud

• There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Time
  • Book
  • Moment

• You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • You
  • Football
  • Games

• If you've got information about an opponent running against you, wouldn't you want that information - to vet it, to see if it's real information, and to use it accordingly?

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Real
  • Want
  • You

• If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Truth
  • Like

• The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • World
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Death
  • Determined

• I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • School
  • Choices

• Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've gone to dance classes and learn, like, hip-hop dancing.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Music
  • Wish
  • Cool

• I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Promise
  • Research
  • Opportunities

• I don't have time to be depressed.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Time
  • Depressed

• Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Spiritual
  • Psychology
  • Intelligence

• I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Happy
  • Doing
  • I Can

• If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Want
  • Rest

• While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Life
  • Work
  • Style

• There are standards of the game that FIFA governs and promises to uphold.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Game
  • Standards
  • Promises

• The customer is always right: 'It's my money. You have to listen to me'.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Money
  • Always
  • Right

• There is always something funny going on between scenes with Adam Sandler. He's always cracking jokes and yelling at people for no reason. It's pretty funny. He'll joke around during scenes, too. When he guest-starred on 'Jessie,' there was nothing in the script that he said first take.

  

  Cameron Boyce
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• 'The Voice' ignited a fire in me to be an artist and to be a country singer, but not winning ignited an even bigger fire, because I was just like, 'First of all, I know that I want this'; now I wanted it even more, 'cause I didn't know if I had a record deal.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Country
  • Winning
  • Fire

• I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

  

  Jorge Paulo Lemann
  • Dream
  • Small
  • Effort

• But, drawn to her at that moment, he felt a quiet like the voice of the rain flow over him. He knew well enough that for her it was in fact no waste of effort, but somehow the final determination that it was had the effect of distilling and purifying the woman's existence.

  

  Yasunari Kawabata
  • Effort
  • Voice
  • Rain