Contemplacion Catolica Quotes & Sayings

Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory. — Twyla Tharp

It folded back on itself like something that M. C. Escher, had he been given to hard nights on the town, which it is no part of this narrative's purpose to suggest was the case, though it is sometimes hard, looking at his pictures, particularly the one with all the awkward steps, not to wonder, might have dreamed up after having been on one, for the little chandeliers which should have been hanging inside were on the outside pointing up. — Douglas Adams

[The little black boy] had seen Tarzan bring down a buck, just as Numa, the lion, might have done ... Tibo had shuddered at the sight, but he had thrilled, too, and for the first time there entered his dull, Negroid mind a vague desire to emulate his savage foster parent. But Tibo, the little black boy, lacked the divine spark which had permitted Tarzan, the white boy, to benefit by his training in the ways of the fierce jungle. In imagination he was wanting, and imagination is but another name for super-intelligence.
Imagination it is which builds bridges, and cities, and empires. The beasts know it not, the blacks only a little, while to one in a hundred thousand of earth's dominant race it is given as a gift from heaven that man may not perish from the earth. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

The oak tree:
not interested
in cherry blossoms. — Matsuo Basho

Nothing is to be done, its just life we need to do! That has to be done! — Fereidoon Yazdi

Mr Howard's problem is for so long he's been a climate change sceptic, how can he, therefore, put himself to the country as part of a climate change solution for the future. — Kevin Rudd

it is not clear that the government needed dragnets to catch Zazi. If Zazi was e-mailing with terrorists under surveillance, a search warrant would have sufficed to capture his communications. Similarly, — Julia Angwin

I am deeply grateful for the life I do have. In many ways, I am very fortunate. — Merrill Markoe

He governed as if he felt predestined to never die — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do. — Pedro Martinez

I think it's time they knew the truth about Beethoven. — Joan Rivers

Eddie who breaks the silence. "How much do you think It knows about what we're doing now? " he asks. "It was here, wasn't It? " Ben says. — Stephen King

I stared up at him, thinking it was way too soon to tell him I was already half in love with him. Okay maybe three-quarters. — Megan Erickson

But it is a worry that there have been so many delays in the reform of China's state-owned enterprises. We all know that private companies are run more efficiently than state ones. These reforms are very much anticipated for the potential dynamism they could create. — Zhang Xin

I think all of us, under certain circumstances, could be capable of some very despicable acts. And that's why, over the years, in my movies I've had characters who didn't care what people thought about them. We try to be as true to them as possible and maybe see part of ourselves in there that we may not like. — Martin Scorsese