Cockerington Quotes & Sayings

The item of clothing that makes us feel powerful is the one that makes us feel confident and self-assured, that magically makes us look our best in all kinds of circumstances. — Valerie Steele

Everyone's life matters and everyone deserves to be happy but not everyone is in a place where they think, or even believe, happiness is possible. — Cheryl B. Evans

For the risk of it, for the sheer surprise of pressing one's nose to the glass and finding someone staring back on the other side. — Jodi Picoult

My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off. — Meg Cabot

Be my sonata, my cantata, my love
sing me something sweet
but not too sweet
(or i may grow deaf to our harmony
as we decrescendo into silence) — Nenia Campbell

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. — June Jordan

To start this diary rightly, it should begin on the last day of the old year, when, at breakfast, I received a letter from Mrs Hallett. She said that she had had to dismiss Lily at a moments notice, owing to her misbehaviour. We naturally supposed that a certain kind of misbehaviour was meant; a married gardener, I hazarded. Our — Virginia Woolf

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. — Miguel De Cervantes

Fish fiddle de-dee! — Edward Lear

I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined. — Mitch Albom

Megan's eyes could have drilled holes through butter — Brandon Sanderson

My parents walked around me on tiptoe, afraid of hurting me. But I knew how disappointed they were. All of a sudden the daughter they had been so proud of was a returnee from a mental hospital. — Haruki Murakami

The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted. — Olivia Williams

Few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to [hear it]. — Hans Rosling

He waved to the city and said good-bye.
The city responded by carrying on the way it always did, traffic moving forward uninterrupted, without slowing, as if it were trying to demonstrate its permanence and show him it would still be there if he ever wanted to return. That promise was the best and only thing he could ask of it. — Matthew J. Kirby