Japanese Swordsman Quotes & Sayings

Read in oreder to live — Gustave Flaubert

What one fool can do another can. — Silvanus P. Thompson

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it. — James A. Garfield

And if at times you renounce experience and mind's heavy logic, it seems that the world has rushed along on its orbit, leaving you alone flying above a forgotten cloud bank, somewhere in the solitude of interstellar space. — Charles Lindbergh

I looked over at her. She raised an eyebrow and quirked her lip. "Waiting, miss I don't date and yet I just jumped out of mister hottie's truck." I — Shelly Crane

Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas. — Roselee Goldberg

When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy. — Matsuo Basho

Don't say 'what,' say 'pardon,' darling, and do as your mother tells you. — Helen Fielding

Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport's green. — Seamus Heaney

So you have the challenge of just learning the lines, period, and not only learning them, but learning them to the extent that you assimilate them, so that you're not worried about what the next word is coming out of your mouth when it comes to doing a scene. And you're also in the trenches with the writers, just in the wonderful kind of back and forth of how is it best to say something, even if it involves four or five words. I love that kind of thing. — Glenn Close

A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one. — Quentin Crisp