Akira Yoshizawa Quotes

Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.

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• We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Think
  • Physical
  • Heritage

• I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Think
  • Way
  • Part

• What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future but it's always based on what we have. Then as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas. You know?

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Time
  • Future
  • Science

• I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Brother

• I would have loved to have cracked America. When I tried, I got homesick. Then, when I was in New York, my nanna died, and I just wanted to come home.

  

  Cilla Black
  • Home
  • America

• There are a lot of people who will tell you I'm very ruthless. I'm very fierce. If I feel I'm right, if I feel I've been violated, then I am like a warrior from hell!

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • People
  • Warrior
  • Fierce

• We came up short on offense and that's on me.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Up
  • Tactics

• Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • May
  • Always

• The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Stupid
  • Praise
  • Consoles

• A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Good
  • Directors

• I would very honestly just tell you that what I tried to do was simply respond to inquiries from people as they came in. Where I've thought I could say something useful, I've tried to add a voice that was, frankly, a dissident voice earlier on, but one that I think has become a more mainstream voice-and not because I've shifted. I think that the critique I had of what was going on in our financial system from six, eight years ago-after seeing some of what we've suffered through and even since the cataclysm itself-in terms of the structural changes.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • People
  • Financial
  • Voice

• If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar.

  

  Jimmie Davis
  • Want
  • Guitar
  • Bigs

• It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Woman
  • Champion
  • Heavyweight

• Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, �He who is content.

  

  Epictetus
  • Content
  • Asked
  • Rich Man

• Ah, if in this world there were no such thing as cherry blossoms, perhaps then in springtime our hearts would be at peace.

  

  Ariwara no Narihira
  • Peace
  • Hearts
  • Blossoms

• I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Day
  • Wisdom
  • Insufficient

• After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.

  

  Michelle Moran
  • People
  • Fiction
  • Ancient

• Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.

  

  Akira Yoshizawa
  • Desires
  • Expressions
  • Portray