Top 17 Yamashita Quotes
#1. I started to listen to Japanese jazz musicians when I went to high school. Some people I listened to were Yosuke Yamashita, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Sadao Watanabe.
Hiromi
#2. Time could heal, but it wouldn't make wrongs go away. Time came back like a reminder. Time folded with memory. In a moment, everything could fold itself up, and time stand still.
Karen Tei Yamashita
#3. The myth of the first world is that
development is wealth and technology progress.
It is all rubbish.
It means that you are no longer human beings
but only labor.
It means that the land you live on is not earth
but only property.
Karen Tei Yamashita
#6. I don't think human beings were meant to know so much about the world. All this time and all this
exposure to every conceivable aspect of life - wisdom so rarely enters the picture. We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then
we become bitter and isolated as we age.
Douglas Coupland
#7. I'm paid to be lucky and that means making your own luck - getting yourself in the right position, in front of the right subject at the right time, and in the right light.
Michael Yamashita
#8. When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#9. I went through a long period when I thought my photographs were not visible - on the wall, but not visible.
Jack Welpott
#10. He who fears being watched from the abyss
will be unable to look into it himself.
The truth can only be obtained by pressing forward.
Sadamu Yamashita
#13. Everyone's got a version of the same story, or maybe there's no such thing as the same story; it's a different story every time.
Karen Tei Yamashita
#14. No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.
Karen Tei Yamashita
#15. If during this time, or some other time we were separated, I wouldn't forget you. I'd recall how many years have passed knowing you.
Tomoko Yamashita
#16. I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#17. Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket.
'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I am merely a character in a poem.
Karen Tei Yamashita
