Dependent Arising Quotes

#1. Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views

Gautama Buddha

#2. I was always drawn toward the Actor's Studio. I studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute when I first came to New York. One of my favorite teachers was one of Al [Pachino]'s teachers, a guy named Charlie Laughton, who was just a wonderful, wonderful man.

Karen Allen

#3. Be what you are. Do what you love. Speak what you feel. Don't hide
your humanity. Celebrate it. Embrace it.
That is how you change the world.

Vironika Tugaleva

#4. Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.

Isak Dinesen

#5. When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.'

Roddy Doyle

#6. Ignorance is not linear, it's exponential.

Spuds Crawford

#7. When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, changed into a desperate version of myself. I become a thief, a vagrant, an animal who runs and hides. I startle old women and amaze children. I am a trick, an illusion of the highest order, so incredible that I am actually true.

Audrey Niffenegger

#8. Part of the cruelty of cancer, though, is not only that it limits your time; it also limits your energy, vastly reducing the amount you can squeeze into one day.

Paul Kalanithi

#9. I was never planning on being a musician. It's basically a hobby that sprawled out of control.

DJ Spooky

#10. The type of work I do, which is often called 'Pop Surrealism,' is very separate from Gagosian and Mary Boone type of gallery art.

Molly Crabapple

#11. The cost of doing something would be terrific; the cost of doing nothing even greater.

Diane Chamberlain

#12. Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and people like their hominy and grits in everyday clothes.

Dale Robertson

#13. With a weary and yet a pleased smile, and with an action as if he stretched his little figure out to rest, the child heaved his body on the sustaining arm, and seeking Rokesmith's face with his lips, said:
'A kiss for the boofer lady.

Charles Dickens

#14. Sing Ho for the Life of a Bear

A.A. Milne

#15. Bugs make you ill Aqua, not the cold.

T.L. Searle

#16. A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it.

Oliver Lodge