Yukio Mishima Quotes

I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.

Yukio Mishima

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• I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Good
  • Think
  • Story

• The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.

  

  O. Henry
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Human
  • Potential

• At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Mother

• It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • May
  • Economic
  • Destruction

• I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Think
  • End

• After 'The Sisters Brothers,' I tried to write a contemporary story dealing with an investment adviser in New York City who moves to Paris. I did all this research, but after about a year and any number of pages written, I was bored stiff.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • City
  • New
  • New York

• For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Lost
  • Moments

• When I first read the script for 'A Little Chaos,' I just loved reading it, as it is a really lovely, accessible, contemporary period film.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Reading
  • Period
  • Loved

• My life is so full of sacrifices.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Full

• You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Work
  • Done
  • Together

• I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • American
  • Cinema
  • Crown

• Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Different
  • Purpose
  • Often

• Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Exercise
  • New
  • Insecurity

• I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

  

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • Better

• Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Men
  • Young
  • Bedrock

• Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Productive

• I might have to do the London Marathon. I like crowds, so that is why I like the big marathons.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Why
  • London
  • Marathon

• You know, we - if, for example, Jerry Brown can withstand, you know, what will probably end up being $200 million of spending by his opponent and get elected governor of California, that will be a big victory in the nation's largest state.

  

  David Axelrod
  • Up
  • Victory
  • California

• Leo never was much of a hitter. I tried to help him once. I suggested that he become a switch-hitter and that if he did, his average would jump up to .400. 'Two hundred right-handed and two hundred left,' I said.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Up
  • Help
  • Jump

• That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Great
  • Different

• I think what's fun about the Western genre is the character arcs are very strong and, arguably, more interesting and exciting than the action that is metaphorically representational of those arcs.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Strong

• I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • Victory