Cecconis Dumbo Quotes & Sayings

In horse racing they put these slats on either side of the horse's head, blocking the creature's peripheral vision. They're called blinders. They don't actually blind the horse, but they allow the horse to see only what's right in front of it; otherwise it might freak out and lose the race.
People live with blinders too; but ours are invisible, and much more sophisticated. Most of the time we don't even know they're there. Maybe we need them, though, because if we took in everything all at once, we'd lose our minds. Or worse, our souls. We'd see, we'd hear, we'd feel so deeply that we might never resurface.
So we make our decisions and base our lives on those decisions, never realizing we're seeing only one-tenth of the whole. Then we cling to our narrow conclusions like our lives depend on it. — Neal Shusterman

The sky leans on me, me, the one upright among all horizontals. — Sylvia Plath

No one knows your success or failure best than your enemy who pretends to be your greatest friend. — Auliq Ice

The furniture would have missed you?
Furniture's knowing all right. Not much gets past the things in a room, I daresay, and chairs and tables don't go to the grave so soon. Every time I take the soft cloth to that stuff in the drawingroom, I could say, 'Well, you know a bit more'. — Elizabeth Bowen

Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf. — Mahatma Gandhi

Would You Wear My Eyes? — Bob Kaufman

My problem is people seem to laugh at me, but the one that laughs harder than anybody is me. — David Hasselhoff

Eternal hope; eternal life. — Lailah Gifty Akita