Lafcadio Hearn Quotes

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

Lafcadio Hearn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LovePassionPoetryLiteratureMore

I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.

Jim Jarmusch

New YorkWritingBackCinemaNew

When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.

John McGahern

AttitudeMeThoughtSomethingDid

I think we're in a time when everyone's afraid to have sex. But I was raised being beautiful and healthy.

Alyssa Milano

BeautifulTimeThinkSexHealthy

We've come to expect so little from online privacy measures that public displays of concern about the matter are more or less for show. Being devastated to discover you've been tagged in somebody else's photo has an air of the melodramatic about it at this point.

Sloane Crosley

YouPrivacyMatterMoreAirLittle

I really feel like I've nailed songwriting. It's my specialty; it's what I'm good at.

Sia

GoodFeelSongwritingLikeReally

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

HateMenFightWarYouthPride

I am a terrible, terrible typist. I could not have been a writer in the age of typewriters.

Lisa Jewell

AgeI AmTerribleBeenWriterCould

I love macaroni and cheese. I could eat it every meal of the day.

Cobie Smulders

LoveDayCheeseEatMealMacaroni

I usually write lyrics first, and then when I get home or close to any kind of instrument, I usually make a melody for those lyrics.

Aurora

HomeKindWriteFirstGetMelody

You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind.

Paula Abdul

MindYouLookKnowSometimesNeed

For us as entertainers traveling, the schedule gets really crazy - flying all the time, being on a bus tour, changing hotels every day. And it's challenging.

Sheila E.

TimeDayCrazyFlyingEvery DayBus

We're just going to come out and play. We know that we're supposed to win all the games, but if we don't, we just have to take the next game and focus on what we did wrong in the game before and just try to do better at the next game.

Shaquille O'Neal

FocusWinGameBetterWrongPlay

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