Lafcadio Hearn Quotes

Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.

Lafcadio Hearn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: japanese
  • Birth: June 27, 1850 - September 26, 1904

Topics

PoetryShortTrueDifferenceGut

The Beatles just changed everything right across the board. They just had that right combination of clean-cut good looks - a cute band - but under that they had a real rock n' roll thing going on.

Joe Perry

GoodCuteLooksRockBandRight

I'm a virtual worker. I'm not tied to an office.

Jochen Zeitz

OfficeVirtualTiedWorker

I see a lot of people say you just make the music you wanna make and just love what you do, and that is what we do, but I wanna write the best songs we can.

John Gourley

LoveMusicBestPeopleYouSay

You're going to face adversity. It's not if - it's when.

Andre Ward

AdversityFaceYouGoing

As most people know, I am a vampire, so I have no reflection. Every day, I paste a picture of someone else on the mirror.

Meat Loaf

MirrorReflectionDayI AmPeople

You know, sometimes guys work with other guys because they're buddies off the track, not necessarily because they're buddies on the track. Sometimes you've got that going against you or for you.

Jeff Gordon

WorkYouKnowSometimesGoingOff

'Ick investing' means taking a special analytical interest in stocks that inspire a first reaction of 'ick.' I tend to become interested in stocks that by their very names or circumstances inspire unwillingness - and an 'ick' accompanied by a wrinkle of the nose on the part of most investors to delve any further.

Michael Burry

InspireSpecialCircumstancesBecome

People at agencies and studios, including the parent boards, might look around the table at the decision-making level and feel something is wrong if half their participants are not women. Because our tastes are different, what we value is different. Not better, different.

Meryl Streep

WomenValuePeopleParentBetter

I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie.

Michel Hazanavicius

LovedMoviesSilentAlwaysStarted

There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a therapist in profession. She lets me talk to her like a therapist once in a while, and she does a great thing. Whenever I have a big dilemma, like this is a big problem in my life, she always says, 'Wow, you're going to have to figure that out.'

Louis C. K.

LifeFriendGreatWomanMeProblem

There is something about the mindset of a scientist that is different - an awareness of uncertainty, modeling, proof.

Joseph Stiglitz

UncertaintyMindsetModelingProof

If you expect me to buy something where all I can sense is carelessness, actually I think that is personally offensive.

Jonathan Ive

MeThinkYouI CanBuyOffensive

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