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

• I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.

  

  Susan Straight
  • Books
  • Novels
  • Pads

• I've tried plenty of telephones. I tried to get into the Samsung Galaxy and the Blackberry, but the iPhone is just too easy to use. The camera takes clear pictures and the phone itself looks great. Like all Apple products, it kind of just makes sense.

  

  Avicii
  • Great
  • Galaxy

• When regulations on the housing industry are reasonable, the cost of housing goes down. Regulatory relief is needed to make housing more affordable to more Americans.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Down
  • Housing
  • Regulations

• The Fourth Industrial Revolution has the potential to empower individuals and communities, as it creates new opportunities for economic, social, and personal development. But it also could lead to the marginalization of some groups, exacerbate inequality, create new security risks, and undermine human relationships.

  

  Klaus Schwab
  • Revolution

• I went on and was still able to play some good hockey.

  

  Paul Coffey
  • Play
  • Able
  • Hockey

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

  

  Gary Snyder