Tatsumi And Mine Quotes & Sayings

However objective one's analytical approach may seem, [Some dude] argues, we must recognize the myth of objectivity as another rhetoric, another metadiscourse fashioning our sense of 'reality.' Although avant-gardism has long been believed to be a metafictional rhetoric displacing reality, we must not forget that it is a framework of reality that has been constructed rhetorically--whether its rhetoric is ontological or consumerist or creative-masochistic. — Takayuki Tatsumi

If you keep examining your mind, you'll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you're experiencing. — Ram Dass

I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks. — Garth Brooks

I hope someday to have so much of what the world calls success, that people will ask me, "What's your secret?" and I will tell them, "I just get up again when I fall down." — Paul Harvey

When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature. Judgment of ourselves and others disappears. Compassionate, discerning wisdom then enters the equation in all of our relationships. — Michael Beckwith

You don't need Satan to explain the evil in the world. He is not the creator of the universe — Bangambiki Habyarimana

In course of time I was more and more conscious, too, that this affliction was not due to any defects of nature, but rather to a profusion of gifts and powers which had not attained to harmony. I saw that Haller was a genius of suffering and that in the meaning of many sayings of Nietzsche he had created within himself with positive genius a boundless and frightful capacity of pain. I saw at the same time that the root of his pessimism was not world-contempt but self-contempt; for however mercilessly he might annihilate institutions and persons in his talk he never spared himself. It was always at himself first and foremost that he aimed the shaft, himself first and foremost whom he hated and despised. — Hermann Hesse

I think I need a little break. I've got a two-year old. I'll be part of The Leisure Class for a while. — Lauren Ambrose

The rat gave birth. Six little ones ... cute baby rats ... None of them are like Hitler. — Yoshihiro Tatsumi

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people. — Peter Straub

Even your own arms, deep inside your body feel foriegn to you, feel that they do not belong to you. Here lies an important secret. Butoh's radical essence is hidden here. — Tatsumi Hijikata

There is no single recipe for success. But there is one essential ingredient: Passion — Martha Stewart

The old
Old winds that blew
When chaos was, what do
They tell the clattered trees that I
Should weep? — Adelaide Crapsey

The wind kind of pushed the penis toward my mouth first." "OH MY GOSH, FAYE!" "I know! I know! This is why people shouldn't go out on windy days. The penises are on rampage on the windy days." "I cannot believe you right now. He's like twice your age." "What can I say? I have daddy issues." "What are you talking about? Your dad's amazing," I said. — Brittainy C. Cherry

The dance of darkness must spout blood into the air, in the name of the experience of evil — Tatsumi Hijikata

The story entitled 'Good-Bye' is probably Tatsumi's most well-known work, and I think it's a good representation of many of Tatsumi's skills and stylistic tendencies. — Adrian Tomine

When one considers the body in relation to dance, it is then that one truly realizes what suffering is: it is a part of our lives. No matter how much we search for it from the outside there is no way we can find it without delving into ourselves. — Tatsumi Hijikata

Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins with a dance wherein the dancer tries in vain to find his feet — Tatsumi Hijikata

When you build a relationship with your inner self, you will never be alone. — Debasish Mridha

There are as many types of Butoh as there are Butoh choreographers. — Tatsumi Hijikata

A man shouldn't go crying like that, people will think you're weak. — Ryuhei Tamura

I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me. — Loni Anderson

Very few people of our generation or the next will reach adulthood without experiencing the sort of unhappiness you can't really deal with on your own. We're still in the minority, so the media lump us together as "The Oversensitive Young", or whatever the latest catchphrase is, but eventually that will change. — Ryu Murakami