Quotes About Haikus

#1. Climbing towards fame, recognition and popularity is very much pleasant; but all its sweetness does not count even for a day of going down.

M.F. Moonzajer

#2. development at leading-edge software organizations, like JavaSoft, Microsoft, and Netscape. He called to chat with a

Michael A. Cusumano

#3. Buds in the snow
- the deadly fight
between two birds

Jack Kerouac

#4. Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that it will always be easier to break things than to fix them.

Sam Harris

#5. Haikus are quite hard
You always have to count them
...Chunky applesauce?

Benny Cramer

#6. Haikus are easy
But sometimes don't make sense
Refrigerator

Rolf Nelson

#7. I knew I loved you
when 'home' went from being a place
to being a person.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#8. On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.

J.K. Rowling

#9. Writing
Haikus one
After the
Other,
Knowing
Only the
Moment

Matthew Quick

#10. Absence of problems
does not lead to happiness.
Dealing with them does.

J. Benson

#11. November the seventh
The last
Faint cricket

Jack Kerouac

#12. But without most of the stuff I just listed above, Whole Foods would not exist. That organic food didn't arrive on the store shelves via an incredibly disciplined group of storks. I've seen the semis out in front and they don't harness the power of yoga and haikus.

Greg Gutfeld

#13. There is a sense of motion and a concise, immediate image in haikus and Anishinaabe dream songs.

Gerald Vizenor

#14. All I do is WIN, WIN, WIN no matter what

DJ Khaled

#15. Hitch hiked a thousand
miles and brought
You wine

Jack Kerouac

#16. Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven's mouth.

Aberjhani

#17. I am a musician who also does love to explore the world in many ways, so my approaching with my songs, videos, and haikus is: 'Make It Real.'

Flula Borg

#18. We wear many things,
but that with greatest import
is our expression.

J. Benson

#19. Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.

Yoko Ono

#20. Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!

John Foxe

#21. If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better.

Peter Singer

#22. Don't drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.

Jack Kerouac

#23. The other man, just as
lonesome as I am
In this empty universe

Jack Kerouac

#24. You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain; unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.

Luc De Clapiers

#25. Don't negotiate with terrorists; patent trolls have done more damage to the United States economy than any domestic or foreign terrorist organization in history, every year.

Drew Curtis

#26. A violinist fiddled.
With strings resined for winter.
Summer's light splintered.

H.S. Crow

#27. Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.

Aberjhani

#28. My children are monsters, Kiro thought. And I am responsible. Perhaps if I had read them the haikus of Basho when they were little instead of that American manifesto of high-pressure sales, Green Eggs and Ham ...

Christopher Moore

#29. Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands.

Jonas Mekas

#30. First book There are seven of them, haikus mostly but rhyming ones, too. Not enough for a real book until I cut each page into a small square staple the squares together, write one poem on each page. Butterflies by Jacqueline Woodson on the front. The butterfly book complete now.

Jacqueline Woodson

#31. Three Meatloaf Haikus
Oh yucky meatloaf
sitting under the hot lights
so gray and gristly.
Nothing tastes worse than
you, not cauliflower or
even lima beans.
And what is that weird
thing sticking out
a whisker?
hair? a rubber band?

Jennifer L. Holm

#32. The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.

Peter Drucker