Cocusale Quotes & Sayings

My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family. — George Edward Woodberry

The triumph of an uncluttered mind. — Blaine Nye

It takes the right guy to show you how wrong the last douche bag was. — Srinivas Shenoy

There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all. — Alice Miller

That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance. — Alex Haley

You have done nothing to draw this evil one to you,Syndil. There is no evil in you,no wickedness. You are the light of our lives, as is Desari. Without you,there is no existence. I will not allow him to take you from us, from me. Know this,woman: if you do not stand with me, merge completely and allow our combined strength to fight his hold on you,then I will follow wherever he takes you and battle to the death for your return. — Christine Feehan

Russell commented that the development of such gifted individuals (referring to polymaths) required a childhood period in which there was little or no pressure for conformity, a time in which the child could develop and pursue his or her own interests no matter how unusual or bizarre. — Carl Sagan

Heart was racing. — Heidi R. Kling

At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need to cultivate a deeply refined introspective sense, and build our relationship to learning around our nuance of character. — Joshua Waitzkin

Snow, tenderly caught by eddying breezes, swirled and spun in to and out of bright, lustrous shapes that gleamed against the emerald-blazoned black drape of sky and sparkled there for a moment, hanging, before settling gently to the soft, green-tufted plain with all the sickly sweetness of an over-written sentence. — Steven Brust

The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession of a throne could never yet afford a lasting satisfaction to an ambitious mind. — Edward Gibbon

We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history. — Damian Lewis