Kamae Quotes

#1. You are not punching them; it is your going into kamae that
punches them.

Masaaki Hatsumi

#2. Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in popular culture, but there are certainly pop stars that play uke - George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Taylor Swift, Train, and Paul McCartney.

Jake Shimabukuro

#3. Who's started has half finished.

Horace

#4. People talk about the 1960s in a nostalgic way, but to me it was terrifying. People were getting assassinated. There was Vietnam. There were race riots. It felt like everything was going to get blown up sky-high. It didn't feel like flower power. It felt like Armageddon.

Sam Shepard

#5. People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#6. For a lot of people, God lives in their Bibles and they open it when they feel He has something to say.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#7. No, I'm so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that's always been around that they're not going to throw out.

Jacki Weaver

#8. I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.

Patrick Demarchelier

#9. My youngest son becomes an award-winning nature photographer, and I cannot resist writing poems to his pictures. My daughter loves to cook, though I do not. Yet together, we write a cookbook with fairy tales. And now a second.

Jane Yolen

#10. I closed my eyes.
"Are you okay?"
"I'm tired. My knee is hurting again and I'm trying to teleport myself upstairs."
"Um, Kate, you can't do that."
"I know. But I'm trying very hard. Let me know if I start fading?

Ilona Andrews

#11. To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

#12. There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.

Damon Hill

#13. Champagne's completely useless, you know," he said. "The only good part is the moment you pop the cork.

Haruki Murakami