Coc Patama Quotes & Sayings

I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another. — Catherine Brady

If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath. — Lorin Stein

Philosophy is the art of seeing through appearances to discern the hidden reality. — Alan Ryan

Then if the actor comes up with, "It's more logical to do this," I just change it [a scene] on the spot. — Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr.

I had some great role models along the way. My on-field heroes were the great Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, and Willie Mays. I wanted to be like them on the field, and I am so damn proud to join them in the Hall of Fame. — Allan Ray

But the most obvious fact about praise
whether of God or anything
strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise ... The world rings with praise
lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. — C.S. Lewis

Our immigration policy is focussed in four areas: First, strengthening border control; second, protecting American jobs by enforcing laws against illegal immigrants at the workplace; third, deporting criminal and deportable aliens; fourth, giving assistance to states who need it, and denying illegal aliens benefits for public services or welfare. — William J. Clinton

The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've always been compared to people. It's a revolving cast that comes and goes - obviously, sometimes people stay. — DJ Shadow

People who have outrageous skills and abilities are the gold nuggets in the river bed of human history. — Michael Pryor

I had chewed a big steak two hours before, swallowing the juice and spitting out the meat, and I could smell animal blood in my sweat. — James Ellroy

She looked that word up too, hoping to understand it, as understanding gave her power over things. — Seth Dickinson