Imvelvetbones Quotes & Sayings

[ ... Dance] involves every possible feeling (as potential), because it is of the body, which is lived (inescapably) as a body of feeling. Some of these feelings we can name, and some we cannot, since we associate feelings with language only when we name them. The body lives sentience on a preverbal level. Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced. — Sondra Horton Fraleigh

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. — Garry Trudeau

We must remember to teach our children that even if others fail to be kind and considerate, we ought to be slow to condemn and very quick to forgive. We need not be tolerant of sin, but we must become tolerant and forgiving of the sinner. — Theodore M. Burton

You had better have one King than five hundred. — Charles II

Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us. — Mother Teresa

One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory of evil is not certain. — Salman Rushdie

And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense. — John Sexton

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide. — Antony Jay

I personally don't subscribe to any particular cosmology or beleif system. I'm a seer. — Frederick Lenz

I would love to do a sweeping romantic period drama, like Jane Eyre. That would be my dream. It's always been my dream, as far as acting. — Chloe Sevigny

I am more human than rational. — Karen Essex