Shisui Quotes

#1. On his death bed, the eighteenth-century haiku poet Shisui had finally responded to requests for a death poem by grabbing his brush, painting his poem, and dying. On the paper Shisui's shocked followers saw he had painted a circle.

Richard Flanagan

#2. I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

Eminem

#3. Love is like an umbrella. It protects us from the storms of life.

Joanie Bruce

#4. I am myself my own commander.
[Lat., Egomet sum mihi imperator.]

Plautus

#5. It's hard - it's difficult to tell when your buzz is at its peak.

Joe Budden

#6. My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#7. I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.

Chris Ware

#8. I never felt like I was on solid ground, emotionally.

Scott Glenn

#9. It's nice that all the composers have said that nobody interprets a lyric like Fred Astaire. But when it comes to selling records I was never worth anything particularly except as a collector's item.

Fred Astaire

#10. The very truths that gave birth to the Pentecostal movement are today generally rejected as too strong.

Frank Bartleman

#11. Everybody wrings their hands about Fox News. You know, fair and balanced? Why, that's snide! Yeah, okay, maybe they're not fair and balanced, but CNN used to have the slogan You Can Depend on CNN. Guess what? I watch it, no you can't. So what's the difference?

Jon Stewart

#12. You the girl I been lookin' for my whole life
God bless me, I'm glad I got the insight
Because of you girl, now I understand life

Puff Daddy

#13. It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.

Wendell Berry

#14. You can never loose a thing If it belongs to you.

Abbey Lincoln