Towpath Motors Quotes & Sayings

When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness. — Thomas Moore

How can a three-pound mass of jelly that you can hold in your palm imagine angels, contemplate the meaning of infinity, and even question its own place in the cosmos? Especially awe inspiring is the fact that any single brain, including yours, is made up of atoms that were forged in the hearts of countless, far-flung stars billions of years ago. These particles drifted for eons and light-years until gravity and change brought them together here, now. These atoms now form a conglomerate- your brain- that can not only ponder the very stars that gave it birth but can also think about its own ability to think and wonder about its own ability to wonder. With the arrival of humans, it has been said, the universe has suddenly become conscious of itself. This, truly, it the greatest mystery of all. — V.S. Ramachandran

Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities. — William James

It may be an information age, but ... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom. — Stephanie Mills

I don't know a kid who grew up in the '90s who wasn't obsessed with Disney, and I guess I never grew out of that phase, honestly. It's not just Disney: it's anything that has to do with fairytales for me. I think I just have Peter Pan Syndrome or something. — Todrick Hall

I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult. — Serj Tankian

I moved on, and at noon, dragging through some village, I decided to halt, since even at such — Vladimir Nabokov

We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy. — Adam Schiff

Accept your symptoms, don't complain of them; immerse yourself in your suffering. — Franz Kafka

The moot question is not that how many persons are of good or not so good character, but who applauds the character truly as the real beauty factor in own and others' lives. — Anuj

Today the challenge is not visuals, but to be able to tell a riveting emotional story, something that can reach deep down inside the audience's heart and twist it like a toy to make them laugh, cry or jump out of their seats to root for the hero. — Gabriel Campisi