Chassier Des Marais Quotes & Sayings

The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism in the ordinary acceptance of the term, for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and nature. — Okakura Kakuzo

It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence. — Emily Carr

Did I really just get assaulted by a big scary man, then get saved by my stalker?
... Yeah. That about sums it up. — Belle Aurora

No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. — Cormac McCarthy

The Devil had finally convinced the world that he no longer existed. — Matt Baglio

I like hanging around people who knit. They are usually in a good mood. People who are staring into their iPhones *and* demanding your attention at the same time are not as much fun to be around. — Mark Frauenfelder

For all its apparent tolerance, the USA maintains a peculiar balance between the forces of capitalism and democracy. To achieve this I feel sure the country is guided by some hidden force; an organization working in secrecy, powerful enough to dispose of the Kennedys and of anyone else who gets in its way. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting. — Paul McGann

Friends you will have need of, for in you two worlds meet. There is no one on both sides with you, so you must learn to take your own counsel; and not to fear what is strange, if you know it also to be true.
- Luthe — Robin McKinley

Genius: the superhuman in man. — Victor Hugo

I will sometimes post tweets that are about a specific person or people, in which case I will imagine the people I am tweeting about to be my audience. — Mira Gonzalez

Poor people have poor habits. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

I have a dream today — Martin Luther King Jr.

See, you're out your mind tryin' to face tha God.
Your rhyme is like an empty prison ... a waste of bars. — Lord Finesse

Life turns on a dime, and when it does, it turns fast. — Stephen King