Matsuo Basho Quotes

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

Matsuo Basho

• Spring
• Comes
• Sitting
• Itself
• Quietly

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• 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

• I, along with something like 5 million other people, insure to enable me to go into hospital on the day I want; at the time I want, and with a doctor I want.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • Time

• I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.

  

  Don Adams
  • School
  • Movie
  • High

• 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 never feel insecure when there are two female leads.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Never
  • Feel
  • Two

• The Arab spring confirmed that peaceful change is possible and so reinforced the vision of political Islam. The impact of this went beyond the Brotherhood to include the Salafist tendency in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya that had questioned the democratic path.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Political
  • Change
  • Vision

• There is but one season of the year when salmon should be served hot at a choice repast; that is in the spring and early summer, and even then it is too satisfying, nut sufficiently delicate. The man who gives salmon during the winter, I care not what sauce he serves with it, does an injury to himself and his guests.

  

  Ward McAllister
  • Summer
  • Spring
  • Choice

• Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.

  

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.
  • Stone
  • Comes
  • Omen

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

  

  Matsuo Basho
  • Spring
  • Comes
  • Sitting