"Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?"

-- D.T. Suzuki

#Space Quotes #Tea Quotes #Swallowing Quotes

“Don't be afraid to reach for the stars”

Source : Interview with Sean Traynor, mag.amazing-kids.org. April 2010.
“Eventually my goal is get a place in Ojai where I can have animals and a big garden. Just drink wine all day and hang in my garden.”

Source : "Why Michelle Branch Almost Quit Music". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 27, 2011.
“Start from the bottom up.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.”
“If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart. But you can be fun and fit and social and be really smart. And the smarter you are, the more capable you'll be to handle whatever challenges come up in life.”

Source : Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.128, LSU Press
“Halloween. Sly does it. Tiptoe catspaws. Slide and creep. But why? What for? How? Who? When! Where did it all begin? 'You don't know, do you?' asks Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud climbing out under the pile of leaves under the Halloween Tree. 'You don't really know!'”
“The whole realm of thought and opinion is utterly unsuited to public control; it ought to be as free, and as spontaneous as is possible. The state is justified in insisting that children shall be educated, but it is not justified in forcing their education to proceed on a uniform plan and to be directed to the production of a dead level of glib uniformity.”
“I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.”

Source : "Meet & Greet Monday : Conversations with Jonny Lang and DJ Steve Porter". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2010.

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