Matsuo Basho Quotes

Winter solitude - in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.

Matsuo Basho

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• Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Night
  • Worry
  • Wind

• Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Up
  • Night
  • Sound

• I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Work
  • Different
  • Unique

• I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Wind

• I always have my Laura Mercier foundation and concealer with me, and I love the Rimmel Kate Moss lipsticks. My favourite is shade 08, because it's just such a lovely natural colour with just a bit of pink to it.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Natural
  • Pink
  • Lovely

• I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Way
  • Hate
  • Me

• When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Political
  • Me
  • Sound

• I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind,' but eventually, I found my way and realized that wasn't me.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Beginning
  • Thought
  • Wind

• After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Children

• All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest available resources wisely, and clamp down on tax evasion.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Growth
  • Sound
  • Down

• I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.

  

  M. Ward
  • Love
  • Like
  • Sound

• I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

  Ford Frick
  • Decision
  • Sound
  • Anger

• It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Sound
  • Determined
  • Rebellion

• I am a self-taught water skier and wind surfer.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Water
  • Wind
  • Self-Taught

• Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Society
  • Evil
  • Solitude

• By and large, I'm in the same boat as other inventors. If we're lucky, of the 10 or 15 items we do a year, maybe one or two of them wind up with a licensing agreement.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Up
  • Wind
  • Same

• The supporting powers of time air and of the wind depend on the shape of the surfaces used, and the best forms can only be evolved by free flight through the air.

  

  Otto Lilienthal
  • Time
  • Free
  • Air

• The rise of Twitter defined 2011. Once every 5-7 years, a company emerges that changes not just the technology industry, but the world... after what some viewed as a rocky start, in 2011 Twitter broke through into the elite group of companies that profoundly shape our world.

  

  Peter Fenton Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • World
  • Technology
  • Rocky

• Just like I described in health care, yeah, somebody comes in, they got new ideas, maybe ideas that are completely opposite of my ideas. Maybe some of it goes, maybe some of that progress goes back. Maybe they think of some things we didn't think of, and so in some other areas - we can learn something.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Health
  • Ideas

• I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Great
  • Proud
  • Travel

• Go find something that you haven't done before. Don't do the same thing over and over again.

  

  Mike Shinoda Linkin Park
  • Find
  • Something

• Winter solitude - in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.

  

  Matsuo Basho
  • Wind
  • Sound
  • Solitude