Quotes About Noh

#1. I long ago developed a very practical smile, which I call my "Noh smile" because it resembles a Noh mask whose features are frozen. Its advantage is that men can interpret it however they want; you can imagine how often I've relied on it.

Arthur Golden

#2. If yuh don't know God yuh goin' suffer and dead! No God Noh Partial, regardless weh yuh deh pon earth.

Bob Marley

#3. Regardless of its textual component, Noh is ultimately indescribable, like sexual ecstasy; what consoles me for my failure of language is the fact that so is everything else. Moreover, Noh aspires to indescribability.

William T. Vollmann

#4. The best night of my life was watching the Japanese Noh theater. I've only seen it once, but even saying it now, I think, 'How can I ever have this experience again?' It was so mesmerizing, so complicated and so primordial; I could not believe it.

Vivienne Westwood

#5. A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.

Stan Sakai

#6. Kabuki is the way that I so often write; Noh is how I would write if I were more 'spiritual,' more understated, or perhaps just older.

William T. Vollmann

#7. I first got really interested in Noh in about 1977. There was an independent bookstore in Bloomington, Indiana where I was going to high school. It was a really nice place. There was a New Directions paperback. It was the Pound/Fenollosa book, 'The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan.'

William T. Vollmann

#8. In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.

Bijou Phillips

#9. I wish to Heaven these scoundrels were condemned to be squeezed to death in their own presses. I am told there are not less than a dozen of their papers now published in town, and no wonder that they are obliged to invent lies to find sale for their journals.

Walter Scott

#10. Truth is easier for a child to handle than evasiveness.

Billy Graham

#11. If formality and courtesy take over the feelings . . . how silly and meaningless these things could become. And despite all this, I still take part in it!

Fumio Obata

#12. About to make it where you can't walk right. Fuck, I want you so bad." "I didn't plan on walking right tomorrow anyway. I thought hockey would work my thighs." His cock throbbed at the mention of her thighs. "As much as I love my sport, it could never work you the way I'm about to.

Toni Aleo

#13. The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

Adolf Hitler

#14. If only we could be old and sick while we're still young and healthy enough to put up with it!

Mignon McLaughlin

#15. As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree.

Albert Camus

#16. Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

Evelyn Waugh

#17. Hey, Brother, did you know?
You were one corrupt,
Perfectly white flower
Yearning for it's own reflection
In the calm waters...

Yuki Kaori

#18. Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every meaning that I can descry lie others, so that rereading holds out the prospect of new subtleties, inversions, secret codes and ineffabilities

William T. Vollmann

#19. Your choices and decisions are a reflection of how well you've set and followed your priorities.

Elizabeth George

#20. New Orleans has a unique history as a great melting pot of all kinds of cultures, and that manifests itself now through the food, the music, and the kinds of people who live there.

Scott Bakula

#21. I am open to all comments, I accept them with humility, or as much as i can muster on short notice.

Neil Leckman

#22. But Jesus, when you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health, you worry about getting rupture or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.

J.P. Donleavy

#23. I've known Johnny Depp since I was 19.

Marilyn Manson

#24. I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!

Vanilla Ice