Cockburns Fine Quotes & Sayings

History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory — George Santayana

I made a sad little noise. If my dick had been capable of noise, it would have made sad sounds, too.
Thank God it wasn't, or that motherfucker would have never shut up. — Adrienne Wilder

The politics of wizardry were either very simple, and resolved by someone ceasing to breathe, or as complex as one ball of yarn in a room with three bright-eyed little kittens. — Terry Pratchett

I don't want to kill you, but I must. For the good of the country. — Kyra Dune

Politics may be the art of the possible, but at least in life, give the impossible a go. — Tony Blair

And certainly there are many speakers whom I'd like to see do more trembling, more unknowing, more apologizing. — Maggie Nelson

A secret spoken finds wings. — Robert Jordan

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone. — A.R. Ammons

I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels. — Francesco Clemente

In presence, there is no right or wrong, because there is no duality. There is no judgment. — Leonard Jacobson

There is a word SILENT, which means khaamush, it has the exact same letters as the word LISTEN. So open your ears and tell me, what can you hear? — Indra Sinha

Those who have no sense of posterity or any concern for future generations are the ones who are really dead. I mean, they are dead right now. Walking zombies. — Edward Abbey

... she refused to allow anyone - even Miguel - to refer to Majnoun as 'her' dog.
- I'm as much his as he's mine, she'd insist.
Her friends - and her husband - thought this an annoying eccentricity. Majnoun knew what she meant - that she was not his master - and he was grateful. But in his heart he felt as if he did belong to her, in the sense that he was a part of Nira and she a part of him. — Andre Alexis

No one ever on seeing Mr Crawley took him to be a happy man, or a weak man, or an ignorant man, or a wise man. — Anthony Trollope