Cobnuts Quotes & Sayings

I've learned from my mistakes and I'm sure I can repeat them exactly." - Peter Cook — Tracy Schorn

Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me? — C.S. Lewis

Success at anything will always come down to this: focus & effort. And we control both. — Dwayne Johnson

When people meet me in person, they're usually surprised at how petite I am because there's this idea that because I'm black, I just look a certain way. — Misty Copeland

The art of writing is the art of doing what you think you're doing. This is not as simple as it sounds. It implies a very difficult undertaking: the necessity to think. And it implies the requirement to think out three separate, very hard problems: What is it you want to say? How are you going to say it? Have you really said it? — Ayn Rand

It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it. — William James

This toxic striving for perfection is a female thing. How many men obsess about being perfect? For men, generally, good enough is good enough. — Jane Fonda

There survives somewhere or other an interesting controversy which took place between Wells and Churchill at the time of the Russian Revolution. Wells accuses Churchill of not really believing his own propaganda about the Bolsheviks being monsters dripping with blood, etc., but of merely fearing that they were going to introduce an era of common sense and scientific control, in which flag-wavers like Churchill himself would have no place. Churchill's estimate of the Bolsheviks, however, was nearer the mark than Wells's. — George Orwell

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist. — Bono

Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses. — Yotam Ottolenghi

If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum the same old tune. — Robert McKee

Most journalists are impatient to get their legwork done and to start the actual writing — David Halberstam

That one special thing that you always wanted to accomplish never gets done because you lived each day under the tyranny of the urgent. — Paul David Tripp

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. — Charles Baudelaire

Refuse to lose, Refuse to be defeated, Refuse to have regrets. — Nicki Minaj

Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past. — Philip Carr-Gomm