Matsuo Basho Quotes

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Matsuo Basho

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• Breaks in trust are infuriating and hurtful, but they don't entitle you to flame out, throw a fit, or stomp around rolling your eyes. Try to keep the steam from coming out of your ears.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Eyes
  • Trust
  • Flame

• But I think we need the international market.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Think
  • Need
  • I Think

• I don't really do sad, depressing songs.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Sad
  • Songs
  • Depressing

• I'm a warrior for the middle class.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Class
  • Warrior
  • Middle

• If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Look

• What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Way
  • Strange
  • Comfortable

• If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Fun
  • You
  • Rhythm

• Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.

  

  Zola Budd
  • World
  • Small
  • Looking Back

• In my 20s I was such a serious, boring-looking person. I would never do my nails. I never even danced. But I was taught by the women. They had gone through hell, but they would dance and sing. I came to realise I can't argue for a happy world if I am not happy myself.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • World
  • Women
  • Happy

• I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Up
  • Different
  • Words

• I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Mom
  • Down

• The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Story
  • Indian

• During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Country
  • Me

• Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Music
  • Like
  • Only

• New York's home. It's everything I'd want it to be. It's the most inspiring city I've ever been to, and I haven't been everywhere in the world, but I've been to quite a few places.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • World
  • Home
  • City

• The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Country
  • Pretty
  • Doing

• My dad was part of the Oriole way. I think he was there 14 years in the minor leagues; I think seven of those years, they had the same people in place. So it was about continuity. It was about stability.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Think
  • Dad

• I've come to realise that the best teachers never stop being teachers.

  

  Kimberly Quinn
  • Stop

• You can't argue with facts and figures. Either people want it, in which case they pay for it, or it's two guys sitting around at the Plaza having a discussion, which means nothing. I mean, Titanic. I wasn't crazy about the movie. But you know what? I'm gonna shut up, because the people have spoken. End of story!

  

  Gene Klein Kiss
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• Yet it is incumbent on those in high places to make wise decisions and it is reasonable and important that the public be correctly informed. It is consequently incumbent on all of us to state the facts as forthrightly as possible.

  

  Hyman G. Rickover
  • Important
  • High
  • Wise

• Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. 'Thy words,' said he, 'Aristodemus, smell of the apron.'

  

  Plutarch
  • Words
  • Friend
  • Son

• There's a belief that wherever your Ancestors took shape from the sticks and stones that formed them, that's home. Ancestors from the coast leave their mark, Ancestors from the mountains, from the desert, they all leave their mark on the genes. When you come home, the genes rejoice.

  

  Kate Wilhelm
  • Belief
  • Mountain
  • Shapes

• Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

  

  Matsuo Basho
  • Wise