Matsuo Basho Quotes

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.

Matsuo Basho

• Spring
• Comes
• Sitting
• Itself
• Quietly

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• If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Time
  • Think
  • Me

• He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Same

• Where I'm from is like 'Hustle & Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Boy
  • Flow

• There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Comedy
  • Film
  • Looking Back

• Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.

  

  Yuna
  • Racism
  • Generations
  • Fairness

• I do think it's possible to change for the better.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Think
  • Change
  • Better

• Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Done
  • Job
  • Best

• On Christmas, my family and I see a movie and go out for Chinese food. We don't celebrate Christmas in the traditional sense, in that we do not actually celebrate Christmas.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Family
  • Movie
  • Food

• The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Thinking
  • Trouble
  • Discover

• Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.

  

  Larry David
  • Trying
  • Man
  • Woman

• Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • May
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Baby why'd you leave me, why'd you have to go; I was counting on forever, now I'll never know.

  

  Carrie Underwood
  • Why
  • Forever
  • Baby

• However far modern science and technics have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Science

• Dolce cosa era la patria.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• My mom graduated from the University of Michigan, which is a great school. Then she got her Master's from NYU. She wanted to be an actress, so when she graduated, she had a dream, and she started following it. She moved to New York and took acting classes with people like Denzel Washington.

  

  Big Sean
  • People
  • Great
  • School

• We are all winners here.

  

  Alfonso Ribeiro
  • Here
  • Winners
  • We

• I could finish my career being a defensive coordinator and say, 'Hey, he's Mickey Andrews.'

  

  Kirby Smart
  • Career

• I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' I hate to waste time, so I spent my time by writing about my life on the premise that I might be able to pitch those as short essays to magazines. It wasn't until later that I realized that I was writing a book.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• My dad likes to take the mickey out of me for saying everything is 'amazing.'

  

  Amy Nuttall
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• I definitely thrive off adversity. I know it's always up from there.

  

  Caroline Buchanan
  • Up
  • Adversity

• Maybe at the end of my figure skating career, I'll be able to have just the one game I always dreamed of having. I've still got the skill, I think. I'd have to work on my stick-handling skills, but the speed and my hockey smarts are still there.

  

  Max Aaron
  • Work
  • Game
  • Career

• We should think of the problems of the people who gave us all this confidence, and I'm proud, but I feel responsible.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • People
  • Think
  • Problems

• Michael wasn't on the pool deck, which was hard for me. None of my old Coral Springs teammates were around. Still, that old plane of cement felt like home. I folded my clothes and put them on the bench. I placed my water bottle under my starting block, and I dove in. Once again, I felt that ultimate state of transition, my feet no longer on the ground, my hands not yet in the water.

  

  Dara Torres
  • Sports
  • Spring
  • Block

• Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.

  

  Matsuo Basho
  • Spring
  • Comes
  • Sitting