Gautama Buddha Quotes

As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not.

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• The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Up
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  • Heaven

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Start

• I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Rock
  • Look
  • Describe

• I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It's difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I'd done it more. I can't complain. I've had a fair crack of the whip.

  

  Ralph Brown
  • Work
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Music
  • Record
  • Gentleman

• I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Democracy
  • Politics
  • Model

• The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Growth

• Denmark nursed that anger and it kept him free.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Free

• If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x × y is less than y.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • American
  • Democracy

• Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.

  

  Larry Niven

• When I write 'paradise' I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Women
  • Death
  • Paradise

• We sound like the Bay City Rollers after an assault by Black Sabbath. And, we vomit onstage better than anyone.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Black
  • City

• Sit down, Willy.

  

  Arthur Miller

• Well, it was a church person in the early days, Mahalia Jackson. And Rosetta Tharpe. These spiritual, very strong voices. I only knew that they were figures in the black race, recognizable and respected. But I must admit, I've always covered the songs of males. I haven't followed up on women or listened to that much women's music.

  

  Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Up
  • Music
  • Women

• Je savais que le bien comme le mal est affaire de routine, que le temporaire se prolonge, que l'extérieur s'infiltre au dedans, et que le masque, à la longue, devient visage.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar

• It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Life
  • Daily

• When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

  

  Al McGuire
  • Winning

• One bright pansy popping through a sidewalk crack will get weeded or stepped on; it's not until twenty fabulous flowers bust through and the pavement is ruined anyway that someone decides maybe it isn't a sidewalk at all, but a flower garden. So please, for the love of gender--go bloom.

  

  S. Bear Bergman
  • Garden
  • Flower
  • Pavement

• How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Happy
  • Future
  • Strong

• The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.

  

  William Cowper
  • Earth
  • Virtue
  • Flower

• We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes — and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.

  

  Alan Keyes

• The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Earth
  • Child
  • Human Race

• As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Flower
  • Practices
  • Scentless