Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

True refinement seeks simplicity.

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

Even Im not as smart as Einstein, as cool as Brad Pitt , as cute as Lee Hong Ki, as rich as Bill Gates . But I promise you I can love you more than anyone could ever does.

Bruce Wayne Y'see, my life is really com-PLEX.

Sank heaven for leetle curls.

I'll let Bruce make his decisions, and I'll be fine with whatever. I'm just happy to be back with the guys.

We are happy to be teaming with Jack in the Box. I contacted Bruce and he was excited to be the 2006 corporate sponsor.

The key to immortality is first to live a life worth remembering.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Are you being the best you can be? Are you doing the best you can do? Do you have the best you can have?-Lorrin L. Lee

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless--like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash Be water my friend.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put water into a teapot, and it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash! Be water, my friend.

Robert E Lee didn't make it the first time and Jefferson Davis took the vacancy. Pershing didn't make it for two years, MacArthur couldn't get in the first year and Eisenhower took an extra year of high school to get in. Patton took three years to get in and five to get out.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

Wrecked on the lee shore of age.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, ''We've just begun.''

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

For men tied fast to the absolute, bled of their differences, drained of their dreams by authoritarian leeches until nothing but pulp is left, become a massive, sick Thing whose sheer weight is used ruthlessly by ambitious men. Here is the real enemy of the people: our own selves dehumanized into ''the masses.'' And where is the David who can slay this giant?

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things -- but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.

As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

As you think, so shall you become.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, -- a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field...

Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right.

Why did I fall for him? He had a Tommy Lee Jones smile and sounded like Peter O'Toole with a double dose of testosterone and a southern accent.

You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.