Joanita Ricketts Quotes

#1. Behind Ise Shrine, unseen, hidden by the fence, Buddha sees nirvana.

Gary Gauthier

#2. Wondered to see, these luscious Flowers' 'Blossoming everywhere, like drops of Shower' 'WISH! My ecstasy would has that Power' 'Days come true! those for me, are so Far' ~Samar Sudha

Samar Sudha

#3. I suppose because I grew up a thousand miles from the sea and missed the great age of passenger liners, I have always been subject to a romantic longing for ocean travel.

Bill Bryson

#4. It is but sorrow to be wise when wisdom profits not.

Sophocles

#5. Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.

Gerry Adams

#6. A lot of people around me were really staggeringly rich, which I never have been. I walked in between the raindrops of real money, but I've stayed happy.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

#7. City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. My mom's a vegan. She grounded me for six months last summer for eating a cheeseburger from McDonald's. Can you imagine how long she'd ground me for eating a person?

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. American art in general ... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.

John Updike

#10. When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#11. To say, 'he lacks understanding', about someone is an open kashay (inner weakness of anger-pride-deceit-greed).

Dada Bhagwan

#12. It's not really important to make skillful movies. I think expressing yourself really well, skill-wise, is not as important. I want it to be sort of raw and rough but new and fun to watch.

Takashi Miike