D. T. Suzuki Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
-
Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
-
If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
-
There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
-
Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
-
It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
-
I married beneath me, all women do.
-
I don't feel closeted.
-
That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
-
There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
-
I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'
-
If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
-
My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
-
I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
-
There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
-
Working with so many people from all over the world is extremely enriching and stimulating.
-
I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
-
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
-
I think that when he had his day down here (in Iowa City), he proved to everybody what he has. I see the guy run every day. I know he can run. I think when the scouts came here, they saw what they thought they knew - that this guy can run.
-
Man remains in the end what he started as in the beginning: a biosystem with a limited capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the consequence is future shock.
-
I love music, particularly Radiohead, TV on the Radio, The XX and Tribes - they're a great new band from Camden and well worth a look at.
-
We pay for the navy, and we have no commerce for the navy to protect; we pay for the army, and we loathe and execrate the work upon which it has been engaged.
-
I've always been motivated to innovate where the implications are significant.
-
I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.
