Makoto Shinkai I am from the countryside, very rural countryside, and I moved to Tokyo when I was 18 and have been living first-ever since. So yes, I am a city guy, but sometimes I sort of feel there’s another me in a parallel world, still in the countryside. – Makoto Shinkai City Quotes Countryside Quotes Feel Quotes Firstever Quotes Guy Quotes Living Quotes Moved Quotes Parallel Quotes Rural Quotes Sort Quotes Tokyo Quotes I think love isn’t doomed, of course, but in real life, love doesn’t always work out. The first I paid to see with my own money was ‘Laputa Castle In The Sky.’ And I was like, wow! I really shocked by it. So I want to make movies that have a similar impact on the audience to that.
Letitia Baldrige That’s how a nation’s manners are going to be taught – from watching others’ behavior and learning from the effects of that behavior. – Letitia Baldrige
Susie Dent For the Anglo-Saxons, meat was the main meal of the day, which revolved around ‘before-meat’ and ‘after-meat.’ But it has ended up as the metaphor for the most basic: ‘meat and potatoes’ is as far from sassy – from ‘sauce’ – as you can get. – Susie Dent
Joshua Ferris I don’t write directly on to the computer because I don’t think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking down holding a pen. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I’m moving words around on screen. – Joshua Ferris
Joe Henderson I feared the verdict of the watch, where I either lost the race against time that day or would lose it soon by making the record even harder to break. The time trap had snapped shut. – Joe Henderson
GreatWilliam Barr Human beings are capable of great good, but also of the basest evil. – William Barr
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