Platano Maduro Quotes & Sayings

In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra. — Mira Nair

Career-wise, I was not the most naturally talented ice skater. Of course I had a knack for it , but practice was always the answer for me. I needed to put in the time to get back the confidence that led me to Olympic gold. — Tara Lipinski

When the dream that was no longer can be, you have to dream a different dream. — Christina Rasmussen

Religion should not only comfort us when we are disturbed; it should also disturb us when we are comfortable. — Sidney Greenberg

What a sad thing I thought
to live in a world so concerned with the lives of others,
we forget to live our own. — Anonymous

Thanks to the nation's testing mania (which I like to call 'No Child Left Untested' rather than 'No Child Left Behind'), children are being barraged with a nonstop volley of standardized tests. From kindergarten to graduate school, students are subjected to an unprecedented number of high-stakes tests — Laurie E. Rozakis

You've got to breathe! And make the bridge between the top half of your body and the bottom. Between the woman in you who's sweet and tender, and the woman in you who's a bitch. — Katie Singer

This happened to your father and to you, Galway-sick to stay, longing
to come up against the ends of the earth, and climb over. — Galway Kinnell

Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands. — Norah Jones

Remember this, if you can
there is nothing, nothing more precious than time. You probably feel you have a measureless supply of it, but you haven't. Wasted hours destroy your life just as surely at the beginning as at the end
only in the end it becomes more obvious. — Herman Wouk