Tatsumi Hijikata Quotes

#1. You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven.

Martin Amis

#2. Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins with a dance wherein the dancer tries in vain to find his feet

Tatsumi Hijikata

#3. It's often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It's best to leave the audience wanting more.

Vince Gilligan

#4. I want forever with you.

Maya Banks

#5. We can coexist well [with Muslims]. But there are fundamentalist groups.

Pope Francis

#6. He was sculpting me. He was trying to make me so he could fall in love with me ..

Jonathan Safran Foer

#7. In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.

Larry Flynt

#8. When you don't feel like talking, no one can force you, no matter how many stories and secrets might be locked inside.

Sarah Ockler

#9. Ashley burned down the school, smeared in the ashes of her sisters, with a that tattoo on her arm saying, 'I am a pleasure to burn.

Cameron Jace

#10. I really love doing yoga. My main ritual is yoga. I do A LOT of yoga

Britney Spears

#11. The best path to power combines two things: 1) a path that not many are taking and 2) something that you are capable and comfortable with doing.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

#12. You are blessed.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. The Khodorkovsky case is typical of the "oprichnina" - the system of oppression.

Vladimir Sorokin

#14. There are as many types of Butoh as there are Butoh choreographers.

Tatsumi Hijikata

#15. I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.

Aaron Neville

#16. I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.

Andrew Wiles

#17. The dance of darkness must spout blood into the air, in the name of the experience of evil

Tatsumi Hijikata

#18. Even your own arms, deep inside your body feel foriegn to you, feel that they do not belong to you. Here lies an important secret. Butoh's radical essence is hidden here.

Tatsumi Hijikata

#19. Confession is for the confessor. It makes you feel good; it ruins the lives of everyone else. It's a selfish thing to do. Don't confess.

Jake Adelstein

#20. When one considers the body in relation to dance, it is then that one truly realizes what suffering is: it is a part of our lives. No matter how much we search for it from the outside there is no way we can find it without delving into ourselves.

Tatsumi Hijikata