Soetsu Quotes

#1. Soetsu Yanagi, in the "Unknown Craftsman", writes, "Man is most free when his tools are proportionate to his needs." For example, for optimal productivity, a carpenter needs woodworking tools and an environment conducive to his work, not a steam shovel or army tank.

Jeff Davidson

#2. I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.

Kristin Davis

#3. It was very punk rock for me to take a stab at working with Justin Bieber. I don't know how people portray that, or 'Climax,' for that matter. But for me, it was the most adventurous thing I could have done at that exact moment.

Ariel Rechtshaid

#4. Man is most free when his tools are proportionate to his needs.

Soetsu Yanagi

#5. I bought all those [fitness] videos
Richard Simmons, Jane Fonda. I love to sit and eat cookies and watch 'em.

Dolly Parton

#6. The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal

H.W. Brands

#7. The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#8. Vodka was one of the three things the Soviet Union made that were suitable for export, not counting political exiles; the other two were weapons and novels.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#9. I put my lilies in front of Sam's plaque. I didn't want him to rest in peace. I wanted him to bounce around in death as he had in life, fearless, goofy, and fleet.

Laurie Colwin

#10. Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts.

Philip Roth

#11. You are mine, Madison. You've always been mine. You just didn't know it and neither did I, but you're mine, sweetheart, all mine and I'm never going to let you go.

R.L. Mathewson

#12. You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book.

Shelby Lynne

#13. Love has no conditions. When we put conditions, when we put barriers and boundaries, then we lose love. Love is condition-less. Love is barrier-less. Look at the moon, sun, stars, trees ... they are just on for everyone. When our love also flows for everyone, you become very natural.

Chidanand Saraswati