Herrigel Eugene Quotes

#1. To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not.

Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#2. My mother was a reader; my father was a reader. Not anything particularly sophisticated. My mother read fat historical or romantic novels; my father liked to read Westerns, Zane Grey, that kind of stuff. Whatever they brought in, I read.

John Edgar Wideman

#3. Any guy who thinks he automatically knows how to please a woman is a conceited ass. Every woman is one of a kind. Every woman has her own titillations and turn-ons.

Lauren Blakely

#4. It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

Samuel Johnson

#5. I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything.

Mercedes Lackey

#6. I believe in it, and I trust it too and treasure it above everything, the personal, the personal, the personal! I put my faith in it not only as the source, the ground of meaning in art, in life, but as the meaning itself.

Eudora Welty