Shibui Quotes

#1. Tenderness rounds out true triumph, gentleness lubricates genuine liberation: emotions that are not diagnostic of glory or passion in dreams.

Vladimir Nabokov

#2. Enlightened teachers and people who help them, have a lot of trouble. People try to interfere with the work and spread awful rumors about you.

Frederick Lenz

#3. There always should be something hanging unfinished before a scene ends so that there's a reason for going to the next scene.

Michael Ondaatje

#4. I thought you seemed like someone who might enjoy backgammon, said the kid, gravely mistaken.

Michael Chabon

#5. My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There's no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.

Neal Shusterman

#6. Formats are just illusions, and it's about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music. Every time there's a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.

Bjork

#7. Give me a literary love that doesn't need words, that flows like silent water and speaks to the bone. There I lose myself in the fantasy.

Julie Harvey Delcourt

#8. The inconspicuous nine-vehicle motorcade rolled toward Manhattan with motorcycle sirens blaring and lights flashing, attracting no attention at all.

Salman Rushdie