Buddhist Detachment Quotes

#1. To be honest, I'm trying to maintain a Buddhist detachment about the whole thing to stop it taking ten years off my life.

Mark Haddon

#2. It's part of me to get off on those moments where ... well, what people would call attention. Obviously, that isn't the be-all and end-all of life, but at the states of creativity that I've reached, well, it helps the lyrics along a little bit.

Robert Plant

#3. An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress.

George Bernard Shaw

#4. I haven't become an American! Having a house in LA is just where the house is. It's just a convenience thing living there. I carry Wales around inside me. I'd consider moving back there one day. I never really left.

Tom Jones

#5. Don't run from your weakness, you will only give it strength.

Stephen Richards

#6. Mr. Watras asked me whether I was practicing, and I told him I was practicing my tissue basketball skills.

Jordan Sonnenblick

#7. Time is one of my most valuable assets.

Bill Anderson

#8. German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.

Brian Lumley

#9. Emigrate or Degenerate.

Philip K. Dick

#10. Most stand-ups, once they have done it, think of it as their default job. I'm pretty sure Jon Stewart still feels that way now. You are a stand-up first; other things come and go.

John Oliver

#11. I've always thought cemeteries were like cities. There are streets, avenues - you've seen them, I think, Michael. There are blocks, too, and house numbers, slums and ghettos, middle-class sections and small palaces.

Peter S. Beagle

#12. If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only your monastery, but also your special Buddhist practices of detachment, love, and compassion.

Dalai Lama

#13. The area became known as the Zone of Silence because normal radios do not work within the 1,500 square mile area. Some sort of interference generated within the zone jams the signals.

David Hatcher Childress

#14. You can take 100 penalties in training, but when you go out on that pitch in front of all those people and the television cameras, it's completely different.

Alan Shearer