Gary Snyder Quotes

The Bodhisattva lives by the sufferer’s standard, and he must be effective in aiding those who suffer.

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• I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Proud
  • Reputation
  • Stingy

• Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Self-Worth

• My family never owned a home. We leased.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Family
  • Home
  • Never

• But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Age
  • Man
  • Shape

• Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Today
  • Movies
  • See

• Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it's totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Life
  • Work
  • Child

• How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Ruins

• A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Style
  • Opinion
  • Camera

• In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Time
  • Power
  • Existence

• People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Father
  • Son

• I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Dream
  • Running

• For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Stories

• For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Good
  • Money
  • Value

• It was many and many a year ago,In a District styled E. C.,That a monster dwelt whom I came to knowBy the name of Cannibal Flea,And the brute was possessed with no other thoughtThan to live - and to live on me.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Live
  • Monster

• Signs are not empirical objects. Empirical objects become signs (or they are looked at as signs) only from the point of view of a philosophical decision.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Decision
  • Philosophical

• The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals.

  

  Le Corbusier
  • Future
  • City
  • Present

• Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. Consistent intellectualism and spirituality may be socially valuable, up to a point; but they make, gradually, for individual death.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I love the Grammy nominations this year. Anybody who really loves what they do got rewarded for it. It's not a death match between Ray Charles and Jessica Simpson.

  

  John Mayer
  • Death

• With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Running

• Every job I do, I feel like it is an amazing opportunity. I try to throw myself into every role with everything I have.

  

  Jennifer Connelly
  • Job
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• I thought of school as a captive audience. It gave me a chance to work on my material.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Work
  • School

• There was a very famous leader in Atlanta who thought that education was appropriate, but on the whole, the view was, 'If you're going to keep people down, you have to keep them ignorant. And so, nothing personal, but we just don't want to recognize the attributes that man of learning would bring. Quite threatening, those would be.'

  

  David Levering Lewis
  • People
  • Education
  • Learning

• What I've noticed is that people who love what they do, regardless of what that might be, tend to live longer.

  

  Philip Glass
  • People
  • Live
  • Noticed

• The Bodhisattva lives by the sufferer’s standard, and he must be effective in aiding those who suffer.

  

  Gary Snyder