Uemura Shoen Quotes & Sayings

Master technique, so that technique NEVER prevents you from dancing. — Isadora Duncan

Remembering and seeing are not the same, and that is why memories are of little use to us in forming loving relationships. — Gerald Jampolsky

A lot of things appearing under my byline were written in one draft. But when I started to write poetry, I started getting fussy about every syllable. I wouldn't allow the work to be seen unless it felt perfect. Not clunky at all, no clunky syllables. So, really, for the printed page, it had to have a feeling of rhythmic and syntactic verisimilitude or something. — Richard Meltzer

Elohim was, in logical terminology, the genus of which ghosts, Chemosh, Dagon, Baal, and Jahveh were species. The Israelite believed Jahveh to be immeasurably superior to all other kinds of Elohim. The inscription on the Moabite stone shows that King Mesa held Chemosh to be, as unquestionably, the superior of Jahveh. — Thomas Henry Huxley

Have a baby shower, then an abortion. Now you just have to lose a little weight to squeeze into all your skimpy new outfits. — Bauvard

The mouse, its curiosity piqued, circled the body lying on the kitchen floor. On its second pass the inquisitive rodent paused as it reached a position about six inches from the head. — James Ignizio

Love doesn't make sense. Love happens when you least expect it. It's inconvenient, messy, and reckless, but that's the beauty of it. It isn't a decision; it's a promise - a promise to chase inconvenient, messy, and reckless love with someone who embraces the chaos with you." I — Monica James

Strangely, I thought of the emotion I ought to feel without feeling it, as impartial as a National Geographic field researcher, carefully watching the events and chronicling them in a notebook. Deirdre finds that she is saddened by the news of her grandmother's death, and moreover, suddenly fears for the rest of her family and friends. — Maggie Stiefvater

The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything in which he took more pleasure, aside possibly evasion of the sumptuary laws. Cicero liked to believe himself wealthy. He prided himself on his books. He needed no further reason to dislike Cleopatra: intelligent women who had better libraries than he did offended him on three counts. — Stacy Schiff

Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God? — Plato