Top 15 Kiku Quotes
#1. Temple of Suma
hearing the unblown flute
in the deep shade of trees
sumadera ya / fukanu fue kiku / koshitayami
Matsuo Basho
#2. She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#3. Now I'm going out to dinner with my parents."
"Your parents?"
"Yeah. They really do exist."
"It's eight-thirty."
"Yeah, well if you're rich and pretentious you're supposed to eat late. It's one of the rules."
"Doesn't that become tiresome?"
"Inordinately.
Todd Young
#4. Sit me at the keyboard of any computer in the world with access to the Internet, and in just 24 hours I'll earn at least $24,000 in cash.
Robert G. Allen
#5. If you fall then that's not all ... if you wish to be down then stay down ... if you wish to be up then get up.
Janice Markowitz
#6. Everyone is folding boxes. Andrew is folding boxes. If the entire job were to fold boxes people would scream. They would fold, and sometimes scream, existentially, then be dragged into a field and beaten into a paste. Sometimes there would be a killing rampage.
Tao Lin
#7. Ill-humour resembles indolence: it is
natural to us; but if once we have courage to exert ourselves, we find our work run fresh from our hands, and we experience in the activity from which we shrank a real enjoyment.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#8. Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained.
Pankaj Mishra
#9. Syrian influence has not ended yet. It is going to be a very long path.
Walid Jumblatt
#10. As much as I love being a singer-songwriter, I love throwing down on stage and letting it all out.
Tift Merritt
#11. Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#12. The means of many out way the means of the few or one.
Leonard Nimoy
#13. She'd known I was coming, known what I was after, and she'd only started to speak English after seeing me. She was one of them. The scarred ones.
Samantha Shannon
#15. Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.
Michael Pollan
