Maria Kodama Quotes

If you have feelings about reading, you feel the rhythm of prose or of a poem like music. It awakens something in your soul and then of course you study, read, you grow up and you begin to understand the message and that is the first step towards understanding life. ~ Maria Kodama

Nothing makes you want somthing more than having it and losing it. Until I got that top ranking, I hadn't realized how much I'd wanted it. Now, more than anything, I wanted it back. ~ Maria Sharapova

When I'm up on stage and do a joke, half the people interpret it one way and half of them interpret it the way I want them to. ~ Maria Bamford

Did everyone have their Wheaties this morning? 'Cause it's time to gift wrap Chubs here and carry him outside."
Everyone groaned except Maria, who flashed a simpering smile. "I'm a girl. I don't lift bodies."
"Bullshit," Flint retorted. "I've seen you bench-press your own weight."
Maria turned. "Honey, I can bench-press your weight, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna help. ~ Rachel Butler

Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors. ~ Anna Maria Chavez

For our part, when we feel, we
evaporate; ah, we breathe
ourselves out and away; with each new
heartfire
we give off a fainter scent. True,
someone may tell us:
you're in my blood, this room, Spring
itself
is filled with you ... To what end?
He can't hold us,
we vanish within him and around him. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

When we encounter a person of exceptional intellectual and creative vitality, their magnetism can disorient the compass needle of admiration and attraction - it becomes difficult, sometimes impossible, to tease apart the desire to be with from the desire to be like. ~ Maria Popova

I've learned that asking ourselves not just what we want to be, but who we want to be is important at every stage of our lives, not just when we're starting out in the world. That's because in a way, we're starting out fresh in the world every single day. ~ Maria Shriver

If a rooster crows while you're thinking about a man," the fortuneteller had once told Maria, "then he's the one you'll marry. ~ Karen Cecil Smith

If someone is doing something crazy - or what I think is crazy - I'm watching, but also am I keeping the actual seriousness of someone actually running for president in my mind all the time? ~ Maria Thayer

What I love about mornings is the sense of possibility ~ Maria Alexandra Vettese

You don't wanna walk around and say, 'I'm somebody's niece, I'm somebody's cousin, I'm somebody's daughter. Who are you?' And I think that's always the challenge when you grow up in a well-known family, is ultimately, you have to face yourself in the mirror and say, 'Who are you? What have you done?' ~ Maria Shriver

Haldol is an antipsychotic." He dropped his reading glasses into his shirt pocket. "It was used in the Soviet prison system to break prisoners' wills." "And I'm only discovering it now?" I said. ~ Maria Semple

The child endures all things. ~ Maria Montessori

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. ~ Maria Mitchell

Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them and do them justice. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

All models experience resistance during their modeling careers; the point is just to remain yourself and make meaningful and genuine decisions. ~ Maria Borges

The beauty you see in others is within you. ~ Maria Dorfner

After a couple hours of this, seven-year-old Christo was beside himself. He had never been babysat before. How long was this fuckery going to go on? His sister was hysterical. He paced around our living room, now in his shirtsleeves and black pants. Pulling his golden curls nervously, he looked like the night manager of a miniature diner who had just had a party of six dine and dash. He ranted to his baby sister in Greek, This sent my mother running into the dining room laughing hysterically. I chased her. What? What did he say? Roughly translated it was Oh! My Maria! What is to become of us? ~ Tina Fey

We are two men, two minute sparks of life; outside is the night and the circle of death. We sit
on the edge of it crouching in danger, the grease drips from our hands, in our hearts we are close
to one another, and the hour is like the room: flecked over with the lights and shadows of our
feelings cast by a quiet fire. What does he know of me or I of him? formerly we should not have
had a single thought in common--now we sit with a goose between us and feel in unison, are so
intimate that we do not even speak. ~ Erich Maria Remarque

I've had the best history teachers of the world,
you know.
Now, I am the best.
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion Of Blue Circle
October 28, 2016 ~ Petra Hermans

It was all a part of being trustworthy - of being a piece of sea glass. High tides, low tides, storms, sand and mistakes all contributed to the polishing process. Though difficult to endure at the time, the demanding elements helped smooth the surface, transforming one into a better person, not worse. A person who learned from the harsh environment, who knew the storm would end, and who felt confident she would still be in one piece. ~ Maria V. Snyder

When you travel so many weeks a year, it's always nice to have a home-cooked meal. ~ Maria Sharapova

Yalena: Could you always open your door?
Kiki: Yes. Fence, too.
Yalena Why don't you?
Kiki: Hay sweet. Fresh water. Peppermints. ~ Maria V. Snyder

Out of forty-nine suits which he had, he never lost one but seventeen; the rest he gained with costs, double costs, treble costs sometimes; but even that did not pay. ~ Maria Edgeworth

But once I'd come up with it, I realized it really was the perfect plan. Instead of waiting for Maria to come to me, I was simply going to go to her and, well ...
Send her back to where she came.
Or reduce her to a mound of quivering gelatinous goo. Whichever came first. ~ Meg Cabot

She smiles at me. "You know, a secret is only half as heavy if you have some one to carry it with you. ~ Adrienne Maria Vrettos

If I have stepped on some people at times because I am at the top, it couldn't be helped. What should I do if someone gets hurt ... retire? ~ Maria Callas

I am glad I will be leaving Italy. It costs too much to lover her.[The emigrant's lament] ~ Maria Martin

Well, she can go to hell with her whispering and her words. You believe in a miracle, but really it just comes down to loaves of bread. ~ Erich Maria Remarque

The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage. ~ Maria Montessori

Jukeboxes, radio and television, going from dawn to dusk, help spread the poison of synthetic, artificial, rhythmical noise. ~ Maria Franziska Von Trapp

We will not rest until the wooden stake is punched through the heart of the Enron lawsuit against us. ~ Maria Cantwell

You have the right to follow your heart. Do what feels right, for you. ~ Maria Erving

Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You're either a feminist or you're not. You're a working woman or you're not. I'm raising two girls, and I say to them, 'I need you to be strong and soft. You can be smart and beautiful ... You can be all of these things.' ~ Maria Shriver

We lead our lives so poorly because we arrive in the present always unprepared, incapable, and too distracted for everything. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life. ~ Maria Montessori

Let your beauty manifest itself
without talking and calculation.​
You are silent. It says for you: I am.
And comes in meaning thousandfold​,
comes at long last over everyone. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain ... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods. ~ Maria Edgeworth

I've missed you," he says.

I've missed myself, you want to say, but you don't. ~ Carmen Maria Machado