Famous Quotes & Sayings

Valerie June

I don't care if you're Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or whatever your religion is, when you listen to a spiritual song and you really open your heart, you can feel it. You can feel the message of it. Just a simple story.

Luke Rhinehart

The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive.

E. F. Schumacher

From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil.

Alan Watts

Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.

Alan Watts

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Alan Watts

If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me to attend to the here and now. If, then , my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

Alan Watts

Imagine a multidimensiona l spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image.

Alan Ball

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

Alan Ball

I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Everything in life in nonsense. it's just a question of persepctive

Kurt Vonnegut

in nonsense is strength

Benjamin Franklin

As charms are nonsense, nonsense is a charm.

C. S. Lewis

Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

Jim Wallis

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

Burt Rutan

Confidence in nonsense is required.

Orson Scott Card

Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans.

Oscar Wilde

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

David Stern

The only record we have are your notes and your recollection.

Sunny Murray

When you take two notes on the piano, an octave apart, and play them in rapid alternation, you get a third tone.

William Shakespeare

There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.

Nora Ephron

Take notes. Everything is copy.

Joseph Polisi

In my view they're responsible for more than getting the notes right or the words right or the steps right. They have to be missionaries for the arts,

P. J. O'Rourke

A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.

Augusten Burroughs

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

Grant Tolbert

When he left, he said he was going to take the notes straight to his engineer.

Donald Rumsfeld

So I remain inexpert on precisely what he said, and I'm told he used notes and not text,