Matsumura Quotes

#1. I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.

T. Allen Lawson

#2. A prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after

Charles Dickens

#3. Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?

Cornelia Funke

#4. The birth of science was the death of superstition.

Thomas Huxley

#5. COME ON, I KNOW THE WEIRDEST THING. THE WEIRDEST THING IS THAT CHICK ... THAT CAME UP AND ASKED ME TO CUT HER WITH A KNIFE. ISN'T THAT THE WEIRDEST THING?

The Rev

#6. I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.

Haruki Murakami

#7. To all those whose progress remains hampered by ego-related distractions, let humility - the spiritual cornerstone upon which Karate rests - serve to remind one to place virtue before vice, values before vanity and principles before personalities.

Matsumura Sokon

#8. I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village.

Gina Bellman

#9. It's not about the big deal you struck that day, it's not about the new car, it's not about the obvious stuff. It's about that little introspective moment you had in the middle of all that. Those are moments between the moments, and that's where life is.

Charlie Sheen

#10. The breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.

Amelia Barr

#11. Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

Hermann Broch