Matsuo Basho Quotes

All Heaven and Earth. Flowered white obliterate... Snow...unceasing snow.

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• I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Think
  • Losing
  • Key

• You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • World
  • Day

• We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Happy
  • Wish
  • Happiness

• I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Mind
  • Sleep
  • Bed

• I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it's because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being 'arranged.'

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Dreams
  • Visions
  • Suspicious

• That being said, I often write into recipes techniques I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Said
  • Kitchen
  • Restaurant

• You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Time
  • Money
  • Home

• There are, of course, deeply sincere people of religion in different parts of the world who genuinely fight on the side of the poor, but they are usually in conflict with organised religion themselves.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Money
  • Experience

• As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that they carried, for that was the only means of getting mail and money between these points.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Money
  • Getting
  • Mail

• Men frequently think that the evils in the world are more numerous than the good things; many sayings and songs of the nations dwell on this idea. ...Not only common people make this mistake, but even many who think they are wise.

  

  Maimonides
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• England become a feeble-lighted Moon of America…

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • America
  • Moon

• You will come in any case - so why not now? How long I wait and wait. The bad times fall. I have put out the light and opened the door for you, because you are simple and magical. Assume, then, any form that suits your wish, take aim, and blast at me with poisoned shot, or strangle me like an efficient mugger, or else infect me - typhus be my lot -

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Long
  • Why
  • Bad

• Neither fairness nor justice, neither reality nor humanity can be simulated or manipulated by wires or remote controls.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Reality
  • Justice
  • Humanity

• 'You have no mind to be unkind,' Said echo in her ear: 'No mind to bring a living thing To suffering or fear. For all that's bad, or mean or sad, you have no mind, my dear.'

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Mind
  • Bad
  • Fear

• Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African-American and Latino workers. We are going to have an immigration system that works, but one that works for the American people.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • American
  • Immigration

• Alternative accommodations is a $100 billion-plus category.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi

• Oh heck yeah, I totally would love to have a Phantom Dennis in real life.

  

  Charisma Carpenter
  • Life
  • Real

• Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • America
  • Right
  • First Time

• I hope God speaks English. If I get up to heaven and have to point at a menu, I'm gonna be pissed.

  

  Daniel Tosh
  • Up
  • God
  • Hope

• The surface of the moon is like nothing here on Earth! It's totally lacking any evidence of life. It has lots of fine, talcum-powderlike dust mixed with a complete variety of pebbles, rocks, and boulders. Many pebbles, fewer rocks, and even fewer boulders naturally make up its surface. The dust is a very fine, overall dark gray. And with no air molecules to separate the dust, it clings together like cement.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Life
  • Up
  • Together

• Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Good
  • Earth

• I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Want
  • Change
  • Same

• All Heaven and Earth. Flowered white obliterate... Snow...unceasing snow.

  

  Matsuo Basho
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Snow