#ch

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#college #culture #famous #father #geisha

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet? ↗

— William Gibson

#any #anyone #child #demand #does

A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability to imagine death, the worst remains totally unreal to him. Gerard went on repeating: "Paul's dying; Paul's going to die"' but he did not believe it. Paul's death would be part of the dream, a dream of snow, of journeying forever. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#death #death

Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion. ↗

— Mel Gibson

#around #character #christ #drama #flesh

If you're not happy about how you look, you have to question how much self-love you have. ↗

— Tyrese Gibson

#happy #how #look #love you #much

I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#afternoon #best #chatting #i #luck

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#detailed #english #english teacher #father #got

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms. ↗

— William Gibson

#been #boy #childhood #corner #dead

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable. ↗

— Andre Gide

#done #exists #faithful #indispensable #make

Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#cell phones #communication #diminished #e-mails #electronic