Sensei Says Quotes

#1. Sensei says funerals are not really for the dead. They are for those left behind. "The dead are long gone by the time a funeral is held," he told us. "Who would wait when the doors of Heaven are open? Only the living would be foolish enough to still hang around on earth.

Sandy Fussell

#2. At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.

Jean Rhys

#3. Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?

Tablo

#4. I still smell your absence on my skin. It smells of insomnia and rusted key locks...

Malak El Halabi

#5. There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.

Martin Scorsese

#6. I had to do this album. I tried thinking, "I'm not going to do it." But then I'm sitting there getting all suicidal and depressed, and I just start writing. It's like this inner drive. If I could choose, I would probably be living in the countryside and be fine with that, but I'm not.

Lykke Li

#7. Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets.

Christian Lous Lange

#8. I refuse to grow younger. I came by my decrepitude the hard way and I propose to enjoy it.

Robert A. Heinlein

#9. The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#10. There's nothing a man can't do if the spirit's there.

Franz Stampfl

#11. I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.

Quentin Crisp

#12. I'd only do Big Brother again if you paid me three times as much money.

Coolio