Tapaderos Quotes & Sayings

Don't scorn your life just because it's not dramatic, or it's impoverished, or it looks dull, or it's workaday. Don't scorn it. It is where poetry is taking place if you've got the sensitivity to see it, if your eyes are open.
Philip Levine, describing what he learned from William Carlos Williams, via NPR — Philip Levine

What stands out to me in America was all the police vs. citizens turmoil. It's decades of bad policing, bad schooling, racism, bigotry and other factors finally spilling into mainstream culture. I would like to see America evolve on how the laws are enforced on the streets. — Henry Rollins

I am passionate about tea, running, the idea that we are bound only by the limits of our imaginations, and maple syrup. — Misha Collins

He that mockes a cripple, ought to be whole. — George Herbert

a small spark can start a great fire — Emmet Fox

The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago. — Andrew Denton

Is there enough to go around? What is enough? Who can tell us? Certainly not the economist who pursues economic growth as the highest of all values, and therefore has no concept of enough. — E.F. Schumacher

One day all of this will be proof, proof that we were here, proof that we loved each other. It's the guarantee that no matter what happens to us in the future, this time was ours. When — Jenny Han

I caught my reflection in the tall mirror. I looked like one of Henry VIII's wives who'd been told she'd soon be replaced. — Andrea Cremer

Lucy and I would love furiously and fight furiously. — Desi Arnaz

The faith I was born into formed me. — Huston Smith

Everyday begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams for the future. — Ricky Martin

The closer you come to Jesus, the more faulty you will appear in your own eyes; for your vision will be clearer, and your imperfections will be seen in broad and distinct contrast to His perfect nature. — Ellen G. White