Taoyuenming Quotes & Sayings

There's nothing wrong with a lisp. — Kiernan Shipka

I don't think books can change the world, but when the world begins to change, it searches for different books. — Shlomo Sand

I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love. — Ralph Ellison

The ideal lover of flowers is he who visits them in their native haunts, like Taoyuenming who sat before a broken bamboo fence in converse with the wild chrysanthemum, or Linwosing, losing himself amid mysterious fragrance as he wandered in the twilight among the plum-blossoms of the Western Lake. 'Tis said that Chowmushih slept in a boat so that his dreams might mingle with those of the lotus.. — Okakura Kakuzo

In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends ... — William Makepeace Thackeray

I think in the modern world we really need to have movie theaters or places we can go in and rejuvenate ourselves. I think we'll have less problems with our souls and our health. I do that in my life, and I feel healthy and happy. I need those hours in the darkness where I used to spend time as a kid, sitting in a little closet in the darkness, listening to AM radio, having glowing paint that I illuminated, just sitting there, dreaming about anything, not being disturbed for an hour or two, just alone in the dark. I'm still that little boy in my brain. — Peter Stormare

Anytime you give up one run in Coors Field you expect to win a ball game. It just shows how well Myers pitched. — Garrett Atkins

I am not,' he said, 'having that lummock-de-troll glunching about this place! Trod on all my tomatoes, he did, last year. — Diana Wynne Jones

I am told that the Saudis have organized 34 countries who want to join in the battle against terrorism. — John Kasich