Okakura The Book Quotes

#1. We listen to the unspoken, we gaze upon the unseen. Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Tea

Douglas Preston

#2. Haskell whisked the pistol from his pocket and flipped open the barrel. It was empty. "You little--" Then Haskell barked a laugh and plucked the bullets from Kaz's hand, shaking his head. "You've got the devil's own blood in you, boy. Go get my money.

Leigh Bardugo

#3. realized at that moment that I was British, but evidently not a Briton, and that fine differentiation was now very important; I

E.R. Braithwaite

#4. Money isn't everything. If anything it's a poison - Brackenbelly.

Gareth Baker

#5. Sometimes we hold on to our possessions because we fear we might run out - life seems scarce. But when we believe that giving is the way to live, we will produce more in the future - life seems abundant.

John C. Maxwell

#6. Power is knowing your past.

Spike Lee

#7. I've often thought family can be the source for more sorrow than one can find anywhere else.

Andersen Prunty

#8. And at times I murmured the token phrase to the doctor, 'When can I go home?' knowing that home was the place where I least desired to be. There they would watch me for signs of abnormality, like ferrets around a rabbit burrow waiting for the rabbit to appear.

Janet Frame

#9. It took a moment to right himself, and he pulled his shoulders back as he regained his equilibrium. He didn't want to be half asleep the first time he kissed Ellie. For that, he wanted to be wide awake.

Jennifer E. Smith

#10. Why do men and women like to advertise themselves so much? Is it not but an instinct derived from the days of slavery?

Okakura Kakuzo

#11. Break something on the computer again with those big man hands?"

"Shut up, minion," he teased.

Carrie Ann Ryan

#12. There are no difficulties except for those who worry too much about tomorrow.

Rose Philippine Duchesne

#13. What I really am is a homebody. I was a homebody even before I had a family. My days are filled with home stuff.

Ray Liotta

#14. You're not in love with me, not really, you just love the way I always made you feel. Like you were the center of my world. Because you were. I would have done anything for you.

Abby McDonald

#15. The wrinklier the raisin, the sweeter the fruit.

Alan Tudyk

#16. You can't lose someone who was never there in the first place.

Non Pratt

#17. I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.

Anais Nin