Okakura Kakuzo Quotes

Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings - generally the latter.

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• Age for me is just a number.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Age
  • Me
  • Number

• It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Passion
  • Blind

• We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Lost
  • Space
  • London

• Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Pain
  • Child
  • Start

• I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Crazy
  • About
  • Jewelry

• The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Good
  • Live

• Everything can be satirized.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Everything

• Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Live
  • Die
  • Mistake

• We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Fly

• I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Real
  • Together
  • Think

• Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Think
  • Feel
  • Uncomfortable

• How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Most
  • Guilt
  • Extraordinary

• It's different for every project. Some parts are quicker than others to get and know; sometimes right up until the last moment you're just praying that something will click. But you can only do a certain amount of work and then at some point you've got to think: 'OK, I'm just going to have to leap now.'

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Up
  • Work
  • Different

• I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Know
  • Car
  • Car Accident

• In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Man
  • Fact
  • Hunter

• I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Personal

• African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Women
  • Fear
  • Silence

• I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Challenge

• From last century's 'The Birth of a Nation' to this century's 'Gods and Generals,' Hollywood has likely done more than any other American institution to obstruct a truthful apprehension of the Civil War and, thus, modern America's very origins.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Done
  • American
  • War

• Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of them possesses martial arts skills.

  

  Donnie Yen
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Identity

• Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.

  

  David Gill
  • People

• We have a 'bad movie' club, and we go to whatever dumb movie is playing in the local theater, then go and have some beers and dinner.

  

  David Benioff
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Dumb

• We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath - whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Life
  • Good
  • Help

• Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings - generally the latter.

  

  Okakura Kakuzo
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art