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.
-
Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.
-
As to those in whom the will of God is not inwardly accomplished,-because there is no inward life in them, for they are altogether outward,-upon them the will of God is wrought as alone it can be; appearing at first sight bitter and ungracious, though in reality merciful and loving in the highest degree. To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.
-
Sometimes you go to a show, and you see someone and think they're not there right now. They're performing, but it's muscle memory. There is no memorising some of the ways we put on a show.
-
I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.
-
Instagram is just a highlight reel... Ten percent of the time, Chan and I have a lot of fun. Ninety percent, we're really boring.
-
I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.
