Cockburn School Quotes & Sayings

Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's centrla role for many years has been to buy weapons that don't work, against threats that don't exist? — Alexander Cockburn

I always find the same principles confirmed: the elements formed into the dream are drawn from the entire mass of the dream-thoughts, and in its relation to the dream-thoughts each one of the elements seems to be determined many times over. — Sigmund Freud

Fame, girls, fast cars, penthouses and what not; the whole problem is because everyone wants the same things from life. — Daya Kudari

By our day, self-restraint was considered madness. — Mark Sayers

Come on! You must have at least suspected there was someone else," he said. "Couldn't you smell her on his pants? — Merrill Markoe

Worry is the interest on a debt that may never become payable. — Connor Franta

Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined as being seen by a one-eyed, motionless person who is clearly detached from what he sees. It makes a God of the spectator, who becomes the person on whom the whole world converges, the Unmoved Onlooker. — Robert Hughes

When you first quit your regular job and you become a full-time writer, you are paralyzed with free time. You have so much free time. When you are at home, you have a guitar. There's a cat. You got to find ways to create an environment when writing is like going to work. Be efficient with the hours you put into the book. So I go there the same time, every day - like 7:30 am - and I leave around 2 pm, or longer, if I have a deadline. — Matt De La Pena

In one of the Welsh counties is a small village called A
. It is somewhat removed from the high road, and is, therefore, but little known to those luxurious amateurs of the picturesque, who view nature through the windows of a carriage and four. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Saint Teresa Of Avila

When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit. — Leslie Cockburn