Cobby Brian Quotes & Sayings

It takes about 6 hours of practice a day for quite a few years to become a professional juggler. I started when I was 14 and that discipline has helped me immensely as a performer. — Jeff Raz

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest. — Moliere

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner. — W.B.Yeats

Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers should lead the Democratic Party. They are the only Democrats with any convictions. — Evan Sayet

What if this is a horrible mistake?" I croaked.
"Oh, it'll be horrible fine, just a bunch of pretentious rich people with shelves of expensive books they've never read. — Ruta Sepetys

Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Excuses are the refuge of cowards. — William Goldsmith

They looked at the world with an impractical, luminous earnestness that moved her, but never convinced her. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

was remembering the illustrations from Morally Instructive Tales for the Nursery, which was one of the books in the schoolroom. The two little boys who owned the boat in the original story fought about who got to sail it first, which obviously meant that one of them drowned in the fountain. Most of the books in the schoolroom had endings like that. Rose quite enjoyed working out the exact point when the characters were beyond hope. It was usually when they lied to get more jam. — Holly Webb

Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian
that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves. — John Dryden

Americans lack any deeper appreciation of class. Beyond white anger and ignorance is a far more complicated history of class identity that dates back to America's colonial period and British notions of poverty. — Nancy Isenberg

A word to the wise ain't ... — Bill Cosby

Many writers were picked on as children. Why? Because they were weird from the get-go. They were often to be found at the back of the class smelling erasers, or talking to caterpillars, or walking down the street with an encyclopedia balanced on their head. — Heather O'Neill