Grandmaster Shifuji Quotes

#1. The word 'question' is derived from the Latin quaerere 'to seek,' which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions are useful guides.

Paul A. Kaufman

#2. Dying is something else. Dying is different to good and bad.

Clarice Lispector

#3. The sun does not stop shining because we curse or turn our backs to it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. I don't know one lens from another. That's not my job. It's the cinematographer's job. But I can talk to people.

Penny Marshall

#5. Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

Swami Vivekananda

#6. If the eye could see the demons that people the universe, existence would be impossible. - Talmud, Berakhot, 6

Umberto Eco

#7. These kids [of the current generation] have no fear of technology ... sort of like I have no fear of a refrigerator.

Don Tapscott

#8. If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me.. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

Rumi

#9. I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly unfolds itself in all its capacities.

Gregory Allen Howard

#10. It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.

Patrick Stewart

#11. I'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.

Marilyn Manson

#12. The Egyptian word Pir-em-us meant to them something of great vertical height. From this the Greek form Pyramis, or the plural Pyramides was formed.

H. Spencer Lewis

#13. It is a profound belief of mine that if you can induce a person to talk to you for long enough, on any subject whatever! sooner or later they will give themselves away.

Agatha Christie

#14. I think anybody who's willing to really sink their teeth into a work like the Hammerklavier, which is a very interesting, different experience, should look instead at something like the Sonata by Paul Dukas, which, in my opinion, is a real marvel.

Marc-Andre Hamelin