Cobori Pocket Quotes & Sayings

it is not how many people come, or even who comes (in the sense of status or position) that counts, rather it is the quality of the interaction and conversation that make the difference. — Harrison Owen

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society. — Michael Pollan

Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times, much is lost in translation. But we try. — Gerald R. Ford

Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several"mothers," all wives to one man ... Mothers in rural Guatemala keep their infants quiet, in dark huts. Middle-class American mothers talk a blue streak at them. Israeli kibbutz mothers give them over to a communal caretaker ... Japanese mothers sleep with them ... All these tactics are compatible with normal health
physical and mental
and development in infancy. So one lesson for parents so far seems to be: Let a hundred flowers bloom. — Melvin Konner

Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis. — Aesop

I have always loved beautiful leather objects, especially the detail that goes into designing them both inside and out. — Colleen Atwood

What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like. — Paul Mooney

Yeti. Big Foot. There was some old creature his grandmother had told him about. The Green Man. Half man, half tree. This was him. Beauvoir gripped his stick. — Louise Penny

Tell me about the sharks, Rosie," Dave said, trying to cheer me up. "Well, you can't tell how dangerous they are from their size. That's all wrong. The big ones don't always feed on meat." "How do you tell a dangerous one?" he asked. "Their teeth." "So what, you ask them to smile?" "If you're stupid enough to come close and see them smile," I said, thinking of Luke, "then you deserve everything you get. — Cath Crowley

I love language as I love life itself! — Jacques Derrida

People have been here before you, and you're going to be okay. — Alexis Bass

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio. — Billy Gibbons

We can all put weight on or lose weight. — Keith Emerson

Pretend like it's the weekend, ... We could pretend it all the time. — Jack Johnson

The political movements, or ideologies, inspired by Hegel are all united in
the ostensible abandonment of virtue. — Albert Camus