Dogen Quotes

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

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• To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Great
  • Language
  • Limits

• I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Running
  • Space
  • Hiking

• What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Great
  • Man
  • Literature

• Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• There's still a role for the Association for Israel Studies. But not as the endpoint of scholarship and not as a fortress to defend Israel.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Role
  • Israel
  • Scholarship

• This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Great
  • Political
  • Being

• I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Young

• I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • World
  • Great
  • Mom

• It is such a gift to be able to write songs in general, but when you can share it with somebody, it is just such a pleasure. It is such a happy moment when you finish a song, and you are just like, 'Wow - that was great.'

  

  Valerie June
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Song

• Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Great
  • Me
  • Mean

• It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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  • Father
  • Sad

• I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add... just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Great
  • Experience
  • History

• The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really only have 20 minutes max on each side.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Great
  • You
  • Vinyl

• It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Real
  • Water
  • Scary

• Adele is great because she promotes the idea of being happy as you are.

  

  Martine McCutcheon
  • Great
  • She
  • Happy

• For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • Great
  • Granted
  • Trial

• Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Done

• It’s the art-magazine ‘Circle’ been reprinted and it’s now referred to as classic. Well it is. But w:Ben Nicholson, Sir Leslie Martin, Gabo and Leslie Martin’s wife, Sadie Speaight, and I did that. We were sitting round the fire and we said, ‘Why shouldn’t we do a book?’ And so we started and now it’s a classic and referred to as such.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Art
  • Book
  • Wife

• There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.

  

  Jared Padalecki
  • Time
  • Words
  • Baby

• The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

  

  Dogen
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  • Running
  • Water