Coconase Quotes & Sayings

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. — Thomas Huxley

I am awaiting the return of the nerves to the epidermis. They're being pretty damn slow about it. — Craig Raine

Writing in the first person helps to make clear the author's role in constructing rather than discovering the story/knowledge. — Gayle Letherby

I read stories aloud at every stage. I listen to my writer friends when they kindly offer criticism. I listen to my husband when he tells me something doesn't seem right. I have my mother's boyfriend, Loring Janes, read to make sure I get everything right with the machines and guns. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

You look back and see pictures of yourself, or hear an old song, and you know where that came from or why you were working on that - but you don't want to do that again. You don't necessarily hate it, but you're a very different person now, so, in that way you do. — Hamilton Leithauser

Self-pity is the hens' besetting sin," remarked Mr. Payton. "Foolish fowl. How they came to achieve anything as perfect as the egg I do not know! I cannot fathom. — Elizabeth Enright

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true poet or painter a seer? Isn't he, actually, the only seer we have
on earth? Most apparently not the scientist, most emphatically not the psychiatrist. — J.D. Salinger

The Faerie Courts are duking it out up there, and it's probably going to be very hairy. The Summer Lady is our baddie, and the Winter Knight is her bitch. She has a magic hankie. She's going to use it to change a statue into a girl and kill her on a big Flintstones table at midnight. — Jim Butcher

the birds in the background was all that could be heard. Everyone just — Mark Kale

I don't know where I am- somewhere between heaven and hell, a place of utter terror and endless confusion. — Leigh Hershkovich

Obviously, there is diversity, but Europe is a union of diversity. — Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. — A.E. Housman

What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in Mumbai, the 'big city', will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them. — Kailash Kher