Quotes About Journey

I have plenty of memories from my stint in the Kannada film industry.

I believe that the plight of life and all existence is to master one's self, you know, one day at a time.

I have to plot my path to greatness.

Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I figure out what the story is... My process is a bit messier.

It's amazing how far you can get into a plot before you figure out what you're doing.

I always wanted to, at some point, sit down and consider how to plot out one piece of work, one album, from start to finish.

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.

Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There's a lot of story, a lot of character. But plot? Eh, no.

Jupiter, Pluto, pick a planet: we can go there. I just got a bit more work to do in the music industry, and we're going to space, baby.

The Britons bankrupted me. I came to their country with £10 in my pocket and they gave me £1 back. But in between I had one hell of a ride.

I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.

I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row, then down another, and try not to look up too often to see how far you still have to go.

My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of images that could have been set anywhere. A lot of the poems were just exercises for myself.

There are a lot of poems where I am questing for God. I don't think there is any finding of God.

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors.

'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.

I know when I go to a poetry reading, I feel purged, exulted. You let the poet guide you through some kind of journey.

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

The most important thing as a filmmaker, the hardest journey you'll have, is to find your point of view.

As an actor, you have to believe in the point of view of a director; as a director, you have to be able to express what your point of view is and invite everybody to join you on that journey. So it's always about opening up.

My personal life, my musical life, my life as an artist - almost everything has pointed all these little arrows that make up which way I go as a person and what I feel comfortable as my identity.

Life doesn't come in plot points or setups and payoffs. Life washes over you and passes.