Cobley Quotes & Sayings

All of us take an interest, to a greater or lesser extent, in what people around us look like, what they are doing, and why they are doing it. — David Cobley

We were supposed to be an English literature class, but Miss Nesbitt used literature to teach real life. She said she didn't have time to teach us like a regular English teacher
we were too far behind. Instead, she taught us the world through literature. — Phillip M. Hoose

Swag is not about what you want people to think about you, its already knowing what they think about you. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert. — Pasquier Quesnel

In other words, science tells us that Adam and Eve are fictions. That Saint Paul or Uncle Tom Cobley and all thought otherwise is irrelevant. They were wrong. — Michael Ruse

Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most complex organism on the planet, into flicks, washes, and blobs of paint on a two-dimensional surface. — David Cobley

A strong and dedicated mentor can help a young woman get her foot in the door, get a promotion and get a raise. — Kirsten Gillibrand

People fascinate me. Consciously or unconsciously, I have been studying their behavior all my life. — David Cobley

The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active. — Amartya Sen

Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it. — Susan Sontag

As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits ... the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew them ... It is his empathy for the sitter, combined with his enjoyment and dexerity in handling paint that captured my imagination then, and is what I am striving for still. — David Cobley

the real is actually the intersubjective meaning arrived at by a community in semiosis. One — Paul Cobley

Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas ... Other than riding my bike up and down the hills around here, it is the most dangerous thing I do ... like tightrope-walking without a safety net! — David Cobley

New Testament authors all may have been premillennialists, they may all have been amillennialists, or some may not have had a particular worked-out conviction. But all were oriented to the idea of fulfillment in Christ and then in his people, in both his first and his second comings. This central motif rather than the Millennium as such dominated teaching about the future. — Vern Sheridan Poythress