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.