Makoto Shinkai Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: japanese
  • Birth: February 9, 1973

Topics

I AmCityMeWorldFeelLiving

White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

Jimi Hendrix

MeWaveDieWhiteDownStreet

A bowler can make or break a chap.

John Newton

BreakMakeBowlerChap

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!

Maya Angelou

CourageMirrorLightUnderstanding

I'm a competitive guy.

John Singleton

CompetitiveGuy

I am criticizing a culture that has sold the big lie that 'Mom doesn't matter.'

Mike Pence

CultureLieI AmMomMatterBig

Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

EnoughYouKnowMoreDancersThan

If I had been born with an aggressive character, then maybe my palmares would have been longer.

Miguel Indurain

CharacterBornAggressiveBeenWould

You have 15-20 years of work for that one throw, that one moment. And I was like, 'Okay, Lord, this is it - you told me I had the victory. So this is the time to show me'. And I'm going to give it all I have because this is my last throw in the Olympics.

Michelle Carter

WorkTimeMomentMeVictoryYou

There were days I forgot my school clothes, and I would actually go to school with skating tights and a little skirt. It's very embarrassing... I definitely had to be comfortable in my own skin, and my mom taught me that.

Michelle Kwan

SchoolMeMomClothesSkinGo

If we have to sum up the Book of Revelation in one phrase, it would be, 'Jesus wins.'

Jud Wilhite

BookUpRevelationWouldSumWins

I like to tell kids that I started thinking about stories when I first started reading stuff like Dr. Seuss and 'Go, Dog. Go!,' thinking, 'Oh yeah, that's funny. I'd like to do that.' And then writing throughout school, but at the same time I was studying pre-med stuff, because my mom told me I should be a doctor.

Jon Scieszka

FunnyDogTimeSchoolMeMom

We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.

Joichi Ito

PeaceWorldBuildingBelieveBridges

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