Esfandiar Nasr Quotes & Sayings

The spinal nerves from C1 to C6 enable flexion of the neck, C1 to T1 enables the extension of the neck, C1 to C5 enables shoulder movements and flexion of the elbows, C1 to C6 enables the extension of the elbows and wrists, T7 to L1 enables the movement of the abdominal muscles, L1 to L5 enable movement of the thigh, legs, knees and toes. — Solomon Barroa

In those days before hearing Charlie Parker and Dizzy, and before learning of the so-called bebop era
by the way, I have some thoughts about that word, "bebop"
my first jazz hero ever, jazz improvisor hero, was Lester Young. I was a big "Lester Young-oholic," and all of my buddies were Lester Young-oholics. We'd get together and dissect, analyze, discuss, and listen to Lester Young's solos for hours and hours and hours. He was our god. — J.J. Johnson

There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter - the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.
... Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion. — E.B. White

Feeling like a winner.
There is no need for a race after all.
I just mastered how to walk
Differently this time. — Priscilla Koranteng

Since I was 8 months old, till I was 12, I did commercials and ads and cute little stuff for kids. Then I had braces on my teeth. They took them off when I was 16, and then I started modeling more seriously and doing more fashion. — Bar Refaeli

There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice; & that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.' (26 July 1922) — Virginia Woolf

Forth from the war emerging,a book I have made, the words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything, a book separate, not link'd with the rest nor felt by the intellect, but you ye untold latencies will thrill to every page. — Walt Whitman

I think about what I wish I had known when I was a teen and tween. I struggled with a lot of insecurity and self-doubt as a young girl and the side-effects of that were long lasting, well into my late twenties. — Deborah Reber

Never scheme with a conniving dragon! — Becca Mann

I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people. — Laila Ali