Nancy Sulla Quotes & Sayings

As a young writer, I was on guard against the Latina in me, the Spanish in me because as far as I could see the models that were presented to me did not include my world. In fact, 'I was told by one teacher in college that one could only write poetry in the language in which one first said Mother. That left me out of American literature, for sure. — Julia Alvarez

With graceful deviations in which caprice is blended with virtuosity — Marcel Proust

One of the biggest pitfalls for performance measurement is to measure the "part" with ignorance of the "whole. — Pearl Zhu

We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty. — Baron De Montesquieu

I'm not a Christian because I need a crutch. Hey, I need a stretcher! — Steve Farrar

I will even go out on a limb and say that we mistakenly may have been putting all our educational eggs into one basket only, while shortchanging other truly valuable capabilities of the human brain, namely perception, intuition, imagination, and creativity. Perhaps Albert Einstein put it best: The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. — Betty Edwards

Like the rest of the city, LAX is coming of age. — Dana Goodyear

Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much. — Buddy Hackett

Even thus imprisoned in an instant, the spirit of man might yet plumb the whole extent of space, and also the whole past and the whole future; and so from behind his prison bars, he might render the universe that intelligent worship which, they felt, it demanded of him. Better so, they said, than that he should fret himself with puny efforts to escape. He is dignified by his very weakness, and the cosmos by its very indifference. — Olaf Stapledon

Darwin was as much of an emancipator as was Lincoln. — William Graham Sumner

My arms are too short to box with God. — Johnny Cash

Not every smile is genuine some are just the bared fangs of wolves about to eat you - rjs — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

("It's crazy," she'd said, "but I'd be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest of my life. I can't think of a better way to go insane.") — Donna Tartt