Catifea Neagra Quotes

#1. Everything of who I was and who I wanted to be had been evicted to make room for this disease.

Robyn Schneider

#2. Awareness of the self is more acutely at the heart of things than it has ever been before. On the foundation of self-awareness alone rest all our hopes for a new politics, a new society, a revitalized life. If we do not genuinely know ourselves, the void will now, at last, surely rise up to meet us.

Vivian Gornick

#3. Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves
so how can we know anyone else?

Sydney J. Harris

#4. Excerpt:
Here are some thoughts from Charlene the Star:
"I'll bet that's why Mama put the word "Star" in my
name. I have a feeling I'm going to be a star as a jumper.

Deanie Humphrys-Dunne

#5. Poetry is prose in slow motion.

Nicholson Baker

#6. In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book.

Terry Southern

#7. I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window.

Coolio

#8. My integrity means more to me than any fame or money. When I say something, I want people to take it to the bank that I mean it and believe in it.

Tim Tebow

#9. I don't smile as much as I should, even though I smile inside a lot.

James Patterson

#10. If I've learned anything - anything - getting older, it's the value of moment-to-moment enjoyment.

Judd Apatow

#11. I have known Ori Kam for several years and have always regarded him as an extraordinarily talented young mucisian.

Isaac Stern

#12. American journalist: If you were to give advice to a woman, what would it be?
Edith Piaf: Love.
American journalist: To a young girl?
Edith Piaf: Love.
American journalist: To a child?
Edith Piaf: Love.

Edith Piaf

#13. Clerks in downtown hotels were said to be asking guests whether they wished the room for sleeping or jumping. Two men jumped hand-in-hand from a high window in the Ritz. They had a joint account.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#14. The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

Francis Bacon

#15. Empathy is forgetting oneself in the joys and sorrows of another, so much so that you actually feel that the joy or sorrow experienced by another is your own joy and sorrow. Empathy involves complete identification with another.

Dada Vaswani