“The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.”
Matsuo Basho
“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”
Dalai Lama
“Everything goes in slow motion at those times. And the desk is coming for my temple. I shove that out the way and I say, 'I know I'm going to take it somewhere.' And I never did find the book.”
Keith Richards
“Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The seniors did this. The seniors would not allow it to be the way it was coming out of (Temple) Feb. 14. They have my greatest admiration.”
Phil Martelli
“The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.”
Carl T. Rowan
“They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.”
Tallulah Bankhead
