Vertebras Dorsales Quotes & Sayings

Fear of insignificance creates the result it dreads, arrives at the destination it tries to avoid, facilitates the scenario it disdains. — Max Lucado

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can. — Ivan Lendl

You always return to the water... — Jacques Derrida

If we expect others to rely on our fairness and justice we must show that we rely on their fairness and justice. — Calvin Coolidge

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater. — Shirley Knight

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher? — Dorothy Fields

The difficulty is to learn to perceive with your whole body, not with just your eyes and reason. The world becomes a stream of tremendously rapid, unique events. So you must trim your body to make it a good receptor. The body is an awareness; and it must be treated impeccably. — Carlos Castaneda

A picture in a book,
a lynching.
The bland faces of men who watch
a Christ go up in flames, smiling,
as if he were a hooked
fish, a felled antelope, some
wild thing tied to boards and burned.
His charred body
gives off light
a halo
burns out of him.
His face is scorched featureless;
the hair matted to the scalp like feathers.
One man stands with his hand on his hip,
another with his arm
slung over the shoulder of a friend,
as if this moment were large enough
to hold affection. — Toi Derricotte

They are having a panel look into the intelligence failures in Iraq. It is a seven-person panel and it will include Senator John McCain, but the findings from this panel will not be issued until after the election. President Bush says the commission can go off and report back in a year, you know, the same way it works in the Texas National Guard. — Bill Maher

Sophie was too old for lies and too young for the truth. — Kristin Hannah