Cocalus Quotes & Sayings

Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men. — Seneca.

For goodness sake, look at those cakes. — James Brown

I was there the night John Lennon was shot, three blocks away. It left a lasting impression on me. — Michael Douglas

There was so much time lost and the Hell was over. Just when I was beginning to lose faith, Abby pulled me out of the dark.
She was my light. Pure and beautiful. — Ashlan Thomas

I like the hot dogs at Dodger Stadium. — Masa Takayama

Live simply, so that all may simply live. — Elizabeth Ann Seton

Everyone has their secrets, and there are shadows following us all. — Chrystal Vaughan

error. It was Saturday evening, February 25, 2006, and I had twenty-four hours — Christopher McDougall

I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you "sir" and "madam," and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of "what is done" and "what is not done," and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena — Julia Child

I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and it's in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship. — Samuel J. Palmisano

If apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core. — Elliot W. Eisner

Sometimes life asks us to make more serious choices than whether or not to believe a fairy tale — Chrystal Vaughan

There is no wisdom save in truth. — Martin Luther

Well, you seem to make the perfect friend, being the guru of so many kinds of catastrophes. We could teach one another." More laughter that had her grinning. "We could maybe write a book." She busted out in cackles. "Yes. A how-to manual for offing yourself." In the middle of laughter, he said, "Or The Guru's Guide to Not Giving a Damn." "Thank — Mason Sabre

I enjoy research as much as writing so I try to make my stories as fact-based as possible, which I think helps them seem more authentic. — Raymond Buckland

She had the courage that accepts instantly, without recoil, and the reverence in love that towards man is without possessiveness and towards God without rebellion — Elizabeth Goudge

Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something of religious rite and emotion in which homage is paid to what is divine, transcendent, and in the laws of Nature. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset