Sen No Rikyu Quotes

#1. Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.

Horace

#2. When you hear the splash Of the water drops that fall Into the stone bowl You will feel that all the dust Of your mind is washed away.

Sen No Rikyu

#3. How much does he lack himself who must have many things?

Sen No Rikyu

#4. Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before.

Andrew O'Hagan

#5. Tea is nought but this: first you heat the water, then you make the tea. Then you drink it properly. That is all you need to know.

Sen No Rikyu

#6. I'd had a belly-full of being subservient. I had to find something else to do, and I did. I went to the animation houses. I went to new fields.

Jack Kirby

#7. If you have one teapot And can brew your tea in it That will do quite well. How much does he lack himself Who must have a lot of things?

Sen No Rikyu

#8. The globalization and competitiveness of the world economy will ultimately result in the absolute division of human beings into two classes, and the more powerful of these classes will enslave the other until the human condition either evolves or comes to an end.

Aaron B. Powell

#9. The problem with you khakis is that you have started believing your own nonsense.

Mohammed Hanif

#10. In this thatched hut there ought not to be a speck of dust of any kind; both master and visitors are expected to be on terms of absolute sincerity; no ordinary measures of proportion or etiquette or conventionalism are to be followed.

Sen No Rikyu

#11. Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

Max Beckmann

#12. For me, making my intent clear to the batsman before he stamps his authority is important. Playing with his mind is a way of attacking rather than setting attacking fields.

Harbhajan Singh

#13. We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art.

Michael Korda