Udumbara Quotes & Sayings

Just because you discover that you may like somebody after all, it doesn't necessarily mean there's any attraction. — Steve Kluger

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons. — Thomas B. Macaulay

The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition of failure, then we are free to start moving ahead - and failing forward. — Norman Cousins

Pizza... It's what America's having for dinner! — Jose N. Harris

The legendary Buddhist flower udumbara is believed to blossom once every three millennia! What about the Flower of Peace? In every ten million years? — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society. — Pope John Paul II

It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music. — Lee Konitz

Nobody knows what the whales may have to click and clack about, but it could be a form of voting-time to stop here and synchronously dive down in search of deep water squid, now time to resurface, move on, dive again. Clans also seem to caucus on which males they like and will mate with more or less as a group and which ones to collectively spurn. By all appearances, female sperm whales are terrible size queens. Over the generations, they have consistently voted in favor of enhanced male mass. Their dream candidate nowadays is some fellow named Moby, and he's three times their size. — Natalie Angier

The words ending in Ique do mocke the Physician (as Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique). — George Herbert

I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot. — Richard Hell

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures. — Brian De Palma

Agatha's mum gives me nice clothes for Christmas, and her dad talks to me about my future like I'm not going to die in a ball of fire. — Rainbow Rowell

Body language, when you know how to read it, can be more expressive than speech. (Mercy) — Patricia Briggs

I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think. — Boris Vian