Cocorico Chicken Quotes & Sayings

the value of intellectuals is neither their intellect nor the value of their intellect but the value of what they use their intellect to do — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If Bill Gates woke up with Oprah's money he'd jump out the window. — Chris Rock

A good man: body serves his will and enjoys hard work, clear intellect that understands the truths of nature, full of passion for life but controlled by his will, well-developed conscience, loves beauty in art and nature, despises inferior morality, respects himself and others. — Thomas Huxley

The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel. — Napoleon Hill

If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow. — John Dewey

There's elbow room, a value we've forgotten we ever had. — Fausto Brizzi

Certainly the women's health part is something that I've become very interested in. It's not something I thought about when George [Bush] was elected ... what I'd always been interested in was education. — Laura Bush

On an emotional level, success in America would be terrible for me; it would be insane. I really, seriously, never want to be famous here. — Robbie Williams

Fools multiply when wise men are silent. — Nelson Mandela

It's okay to be afraid, Jo. It's what keeps us alive. But falling to that fear is what will get you killed. — Brandy Nacole

I grew up thinking that singing was my security. — Nana Mouskouri

Sometimes I got so bored of trying to touch her breasts that I would try to touch her between her legs, a gesture that had a sort of self-parodying wit about it: it was like trying to borrow a fiver, getting turned down, and asking to borrow fifty quid instead. These — Nick Hornby

I never heard a passion so confused,
So strange, outrageous, and so variable,
As the dog Jew did utter in the streets:
'My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!
Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!
Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter!
A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,
Of double ducats, stolen from me by my daughter!
And jewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones,
Stolen by my daughter! Justice! find the girl;
She hath the stones upon her, and the ducats. — William Shakespeare

Everyone else isn't you. It turns out that's a huge problem for me. — Clementine Von Radics

It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was too ludicrous to take seriously. — Anthony Kiedis