Quote by Ruth Ozeki Download Open image ““As we moved from Tokyo the world became greener.”” — Ruth Ozeki ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Tokyo was a place you could quite happily exist alone and be self-contained. It seemed to promise that it was better to be by… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“That night I took a long, wandering walk through Tokyo. I was restless and felt the need to move, to let the city’s currents… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“I'd been very influenced by what I'd seen in Japan. Part of what I greatly admired there - and part of what we were… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“What of it? Tokyo people are complicated. They live in such noise and confusion that their feelings are broken to little bits.” “Everything is… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
“From New Year's Eve through the third of January, the streets of Tokyo grew quiet, as if all the people had disappeared.” — Shogo Oketani Copy Share Image
“country. The youngsters became independent; the idea of living isolated in a poor imitation of Japan was finished. We integrated into America.” — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Japan is probably the best... example of the abandonment of an ancient and nature-oriented ethos for the spirit of progress, Western style.” — John Livingston. from "One Cosmic Moment Copy Share Image
“This was a better place. Not just this new town, but this new world. So much brighter and cleaner than the old world of… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
“Tokyo is bigger than Kumamoto. And Japan is bigger than Tokyo. And even bigger than Japan... Even bigger than Japan is the inside of… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
“The overriding sense of Tokyo...is that it is a city devoted to the new, sped up in a subtle but profound way: a postmodern… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“I went round the side of the house, and stared at the garden in horror. The ivy had almost taken over. There were still… — Jacqueline Wilson Copy Share Image
“This world ye speak of, Akira, is built upon survival. The strong conquer and live, while the weak crumble and die.” — Jennifer Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
“Time plays tricks on mothers. It teases you with breaks and brief caesuras, only to skip wildly forward, bringing breathtaking changes to your baby's… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Everything seemed to grow blacker as I sat there, except for the fireflies whose tiny pulsing lights drew arcs through the dark summer air.… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Premonitions are coincidences waiting to happen,” he said, without looking up. “I” — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“As someone who has to teach for a living, I shouldn't be saying this, but the planet can do quite well without books.” — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now! — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Do not think that time simply flies away. Do not understand “flying” as the only function of time. If time simply flew away, a… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“INSTRUCTIONS FOR ZAZEN First of all, you have to sit down, which you’re probably already doing. The traditional way is to sit on a… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“this feeling of alive is not so easy to experience. Even although life is a thing that seems to have some kind of weight… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
It was really a means-of-production problem. It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
