Top 71 Quotes About Mori
#1. The most widely raised type of silkworm, the larva of the 'Bombyx mori', no longer exists anywhere in a natural state. As my encyclopedia poignantly puts it: 'The legs of the larvae have degenerated, and the adults no longer fly'.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#2. Mori smiled properly. The lines around his eyes were deeper than usual now. They made him look like an old photograph of a young man, often crushed, but ironed carefully so that only the ghosts of the marks remained.
Natasha Pulley
#3. Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried.
[Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori
Coelum, negata tentat iter via.]
Horace
#4. All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
Susan Sontag
#5. One of the things that we talked about was this idea of 'Memento Mori' - like the reminder of our own mortality - and so we were sort of trying to express that in our press photos. And it's one of the themes of the album [Modern Vampires of the City] as well.
Rostam Batmanglij
#6. A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark's spooky novel, 'Memento Mori.'
Billy Collins
#7. He started not to answer it, but it was his agent, Mori, and if he didn't answer Mori would worry him like a neurotic puppy with a urinary tract infection needing to go piss in the snow.' (Aiden)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#8. I'll give you a cake if you get him in the stream by the end of the afternoon,' Mori said to Six.
'Hold on,' Thaniel said. 'No making criminals of the orphans, Fagin.'
'But I want some cake,' Six frowned. 'And his name isn't Fagin.
Natasha Pulley
#9. This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
[Lat., Hic rogo non furor est ne moriare mori?]
Martial
#10. Never forget that you must die; that death will come sooner than you expect ... God has written the letters of death upon your hands. In the inside of your hands you will see the letters M.M. It means 'Memento Mori' - remember you must die.
John Furniss
#11. The Bombyx mori caterpillar," her brother supplied, thinking of snack time at the Shaolin Temple. "It tastes like chicken.
Gordon Korman
#12. My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. I mock this skull.
Yann Martel
#13. Conceptio culpa Nasci pena Labor vita Necesse mori 'Conception is sin, birth is pain, life is toil, death is inevitable.
Niall Ferguson
#14. Memento mori and obey the Lord.
Art and religion love the somber chord.
Robert Frost
#15. I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris
Tony Benn
#16. Hospitals were to her a memento mori in bricks and mortar; an awful reminder of the inevitable end that was coming to all of us but which she felt was best ignored while one got on with the business of life.
Alexander McCall Smith
#19. Mori looked across and was, briefly, a languageless, inhuman thing rescued from the sea and asked for an impious favour.
Natasha Pulley
#20. Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature such as self preservation? (CIA Document, Project ARTICHOKE, MORI ID 144686, 1952)
As cited by Dr Ellen P. Lacter, p57
Orit Badouk Epstein
#21. No matter how much i loved him it was a matter of my life or his death he was now my enemy and a harm to mori. It was my job.butcould i do it or would love stand in theway
Richelle Mead
#22. If we are ever to meet once more shall we sing together and tell our tales? May all things good and wonderful be ever at your feet. May the bounty of fortune be ever at your feet. May the stars protect you by day and the moon by night.
Kaoru Mori
#23. It is my strong hope that an environment will be created in which both of our countries can cooperate for the realization of a world without nuclear weapons.
Yoshiro Mori
#24. The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
Ikue Mori
#25. The reality is Hicks is facing an unfair justice system that is not tolerated anywhere else in the world, so where does that leave him
Michael Mori
#26. I'm always telling Don King's people when there's a top-10 heavyweight they've got that needs an opponent, I'm ready.
Mark De Mori
#27. I am making an Enlightenment Capsule for the audience to meditate inside - virtual reality in which people can experience ancient ideas from the East ... But I'm not interested in using ancient things; rather I want to connect [audiences] with contemporary life through the technology we have now.
Mariko Mori
#28. I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
Ikue Mori
#29. I must create the world in order to breathe in the world; I don't exist unless I create.
Mariko Mori
#30. India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology.
Yoshiro Mori
#31. Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.
Ikue Mori
#32. I believe my concepts are more than just business, they are about our culture.
Minoru Mori
#33. O, worldly pomp, how despicable you are when one considers that you are empty and fleeting ! You are justly compared to watery bubbles, one moment all swollen up, then suddenly reduced to nothing.
Ordericus Vitalis
#34. I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.
Ikue Mori
#35. I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
Ikue Mori
#37. The world has entered a new era, evolving from an industrial into a knowledge-based society, and into a society that wants to live in harmony with nature.
Minoru Mori
#38. Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.
Ikue Mori
#39. Know the rules of child rearing!!
Rule one: Physical strength!
Rule two: Physical strength!
There are no rules three or four, but rule five is physical strength!
Kaoru Mori
#40. I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
Ikue Mori
#41. We've fallen into a fin-de-siecle period of crisis in which people believe only the things they see right in front of them
Mariko Mori
#42. I have this belief about things happening organically. I believe life has this organic flow in a way.
Naoko Mori
#43. The money, the fame, if that comes, that's fantastic. But at the end of the day, my aim is to go to sleep at night content and have a purpose, and to know that I'm not swapping my life for money and some mind-numbing boring job, making easy money and protecting my brain.
Mark De Mori
#44. Because it's dance music, you can't really have a lot of changing in there. It's really not for me because there's too much repetition. I like more diversity.
Ikue Mori
#45. For me, there's always a huge attraction in playing real people. But with it comes an incredible sense of responsibility because you're playing a real person in a real event.
Naoko Mori
#46. A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
Yoshiro Mori
#47. Let me drive you out of the fire into a day of humble miracles.
Kyoko Mori
#48. Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.
Ikue Mori
#49. The disadvantages of a decentralized, spread out urban area are tremendous, and the environmental damage of urban sprawl cannot be ignored. As a large city, Tokyo must be used more efficiently and the population density increased.
Minoru Mori
#50. With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.
Ikue Mori
#51. Sexy boxing is something that takes away from the brutality of boxing.
Mark De Mori
#52. Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.
Ikue Mori
#53. Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last.
Justina Chen
#54. The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.
Ikue Mori
#55. So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
Ikue Mori
#56. In my experience, in the real-estate business past success stories are generally not applicable to new situations. We must continually reinvent ourselves, responding to changing times with innovative new business models.
Akira Mori
#57. What I love is finding immersive jobs. I've always wanted a challenge ...
Naoko Mori
#58. Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
Ikue Mori
#59. I am interested in circulating past iconography in the present in order to get to the future.
Mariko Mori
#60. If at my funeral they're talking about my boxing stories, I'd be disappointed because this is just a springboard for when I'm finished. It's just a game. It's pretty silly when you think about it: two grown men punching each other in the face and taking it seriously.
Mark De Mori
#61. In my family, there were Kei and Minoru and then there were the rest. Everyone in my family is very opinionated and everyone tried to join the debate. But by the time my turn came, there was nothing left to say. I couldn't keep pace, so I looked to do my own things.
Akira Mori
#62. By using vertical space more effectively, you not only make more room for greenery but shorter commutes also mean less pressure on CO2 emission problems and by freeing up time now spent on unproductive commuter trains, people would have more options in their lives.
Minoru Mori
#63. I always wanted to get out of Tokyo and in 1977, New York seemed like the most interesting place to visit. I didn't intend to live here- I just wanted to get out and see what was happening. I just happened to stay here then.
Ikue Mori
#64. We intend to conduct our business in a way that not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our customers, business partners, shareholders, and creditors, as well as the communities in which we operate and society at large.
Akira Mori
#65. How does it feel, whispered Faith, to come back to your memories and find yourself missing and a dead person in your place?
Frances Hardinge
#66. Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
Emil Cioran
#67. I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.
Ikue Mori
#68. Blood and death. That moves me.
Ikue Mori
#69. To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership .
Minoru Mori
#70. I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.
Ikue Mori
#71. If you were food, you would be corn. I dont know why, i just sense corn in you.
Lizbeth Mori
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