Casilda Quotes & Sayings

I'm in a caregiver's relationship with my body, a perpetual internal gauging of wellness. My spine is Hogarth's thermometer. I ascend and descend its rungs a hundred times a day, reading the mercury level. The same dis-ease speaks many languages. If you block one mouth, another will speak. The symptoms represent differently, and as I get older, my translation changes. The prescription changes. Must be vigilant. Must be my best nurse. — Jalina Mhyana

Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding. — Nhat Hanh

I was actually very surprised, and I told myself wow, I want to fight this guy. — Vitali Klitschko

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. — Thomas Sowell

It looked rather stylish next to my wife's glass of wine, like a still from a North Korean IKEA catalogue. — Lennard Van Ree

When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful. — Edward Abbey

Oh, you humans may prefer empathy and mercy, but that's like intuiting the answer to an equation: you still have to go back and work the problem to be certain you were right. We can come to genuinely moral conclusions by our own paths. — Rachel Hartman

On a live-action movie, things happen that are unexpected. In animation, you have to fabricate the feeling. That takes a tremendous amount of nuance until the film becomes sentient and gives back. — Gore Verbinski

I have this wonderful capacity just to walk away from my mistakes and not dwell on them. — Emily Yoffe

At the end of all things, why do lovers break up?

Because love is magic. You have to believe, for it to exist. — Timothy Joshua

A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph. — Patrick Modiano

Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds. — Mary E. DeMuth

Our society is so caught up in winning, we forget that most of the great men and women in history have, at one time or another, failed at something. Often repeatedly, and discouragingly. But each failure is nothing more than a brick in the wall that forms the foundation of our success. We can't forget that. — Carleton Young

I use photos a lot for drawing people and personalities, but they're almost never photos that I've taken. — Robert Crumb