St. George Jackson Mivart famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
Say, Nana... You look like stray cat, wild and proud. But I can see the wound in your heart. At the time I just thought it was cool. I never realized how hurt you were.
You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.
The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.
I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible.
I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.
I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.

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