Bill Porter Quotes

This building we're in has doors and windows. If we close the doors and windows, we can't get out. People lock themselves inside a house of delusions. But they're only delusions. They can leave anytime. Actually there is no house to leave. There's not even any leaving. What we see are flowers in the sky, the moon in the water. As for the meditative powers of Zen masters like Hsu-yun, sometimes it's useful to meditate and sometimes it isn't.

Bill Porter

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• But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Change
  • Present
  • Democracy

• Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Best
  • Ahead

• Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • May
  • Freedom
  • Anger

• I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Family
  • Travel
  • Gold

• As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see the cockpit and controls. I was in awe of the captain, and he stamped my log book, which I still have to this day.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Book
  • Opportunity
  • Day

• You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Movie
  • You
  • Fantasy

• Some people find that if they share a profession with their partner, they don't talk about anything else.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • People
  • Find
  • Partner

• When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Character
  • Hair

• Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Poet
  • Isolation

• I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • History
  • See
  • Collaboration

• My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Friend
  • Positive

• The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Reality

• Bringing buyers and sellers together through a single platform is not a new idea - most of us know about eBay's success - but with advancing technology comes new innovative methods for businesses to connect customers with those who want to offer services.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Together
  • Want
  • Success

• I am not Dr. Ron Paul. I am not Dr. Ron Paul, Jr. I am not Dr. Ron Paul Lite.

  

  Randy Weber
  • Dr. Ron Paul
  • Dr. Ron Paul Lite

• The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • Book
  • Travel

• If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Want
  • You
  • Chickens

• The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Work
  • Science

• Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Action
  • Responsibility

• As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, 'Hey, I'd like to draw manga - I'd like to be a manga author!'

  

  Natsuki Takaya
  • Reading
  • Thought
  • Child

• You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Spring
  • Flowers
  • Gardening

• Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of our hands, this race of plants, deserving boundless affection and admiration from us, becomes, in proportion to their obtaining it, a nearly perfect test of our being in right temper of mind and way of life; so that no one can be far wrong in either who loves trees enough, and everyone is assuredly wrong in both who does not love them, if his life has brought them in his way.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Building

• They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • People
  • Me
  • Nice

• It is easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Way
  • Travel
  • Cutting

• This building we're in has doors and windows. If we close the doors and windows, we can't get out. People lock themselves inside a house of delusions. But they're only delusions. They can leave anytime. Actually there is no house to leave. There's not even any leaving. What we see are flowers in the sky, the moon in the water. As for the meditative powers of Zen masters like Hsu-yun, sometimes it's useful to meditate and sometimes it isn't.

  

  Bill Porter
  • Building
  • Doors
  • Flowers