Sakyamuni Quotes & Sayings

In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself. — Okakura Kakuzo

One cannot know everything. — Horace

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. — Alfred Jarry

Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood. — Dee Dee Myers

You do not set a high enough value on yourself if you think a man who loves you should not weave you into the fabric of his life with every thread. - Robert Service to Constance MacLean, 1903 (age 28) — David Eso

Do the next right thing and the next right step will reveal itself to you. — Julie Connor

One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

And who can be ill natured and bad tempered when they encounter neither opposition nor indifference? — Emily Bronte

When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric. — Al McGuire

Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world better than they found it, while looking for the best in others, and giving the best they have. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Saku's figure before me looked like a morning glory drawn with one stroke of the brush. My only regret was that the drawing was not by the hand of a master. — Soseki Natsume

I could fall
And there's nothin' else I can do — Mark Lane

I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes gradually ... Thus it was that I subsequently began to introduce sand, sawdust and metal filings into my pictures. — Georges Braque

My exit is the result of too many entrees. — Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin. — Peter Matthiessen

Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will. — Charles Baudelaire