Coelacanth Quotes & Sayings

Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone is able to pursue. — Dalai Lama XIV

Things became more civilized all of a sudden. Coffee does that. Or maybe it is women who do that. — Elizabeth Wein

You really had to learn to protect yourself from all Gooks in Vietnam, or else you would end up dead. — Peter P. Mahoney

You can decide to refuse to allow people who aim at hating you to achieve their aims. — Israelmore Ayivor

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand. — James F. Cooper

Charlotte met eyes with the sofa. That is, if the sofa had eyes, she would have met eyes with it. As it was, she just had the creepy sensation that it *knew* she was looking at it. Which of course it didn't. It was just a sofa after all. A sofa that seemed to have eyes, and if it did have eyes, it would be glaring - kind of smugly. A smug kind of glare
She was still rambling, even in her thoughts.
Shut up, Charlotte, she told herself.
She pointed at the sofa. "It was there."
Eddie didn't speak. Perhaps if he had, he would have rambled too. Instead, he approached the sofa cautiously (almost as if the sofa had eyes and Eddie didn't like the way it was smugly glaring) and lifted the velvet coverlet. — Shannon Hale

I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don't have the bass, it's like being amputated. It's like you have no legs. — Lou Reed

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. — Carl Jung

The nanny seemed to be extinct until 1975, when, like the coelacanth, she suddenly and unexpectedly reappeared in the shape of Margaret Thatcher. — Simon Hoggart

Isimangaliso must be the only place on the globe where the oldest land mammal (rhinoceros) and the world biggest terrestrial mammal (elephant) share an ecosystem with the world's oldest fish (coelacanth) and the world's biggest marine mammal (whale) — Nelson Mandela

All your quirks and all your problems - even your depressions and your failures - that's what makes you you. — Gerard Way

When a company gets into trouble, it should basically have to be resolved, in other words, stockholders lose their money, unsecured bondholders lose their money. — Judd Gregg

I certainly wouldn't define myself as a northerner. I'm not even really sure what that means. I've lived in London for 50 years. I wasn't born here, but I have spent most of my life here. So I don't make much of it, to be honest. I'm just myself. — Ian McKellen

I don't think I'm really in a situation to complain, because I consider myself to be privileged to be doing what I do. — David Beckham

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just. — Victor Hugo

We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community. — Martin Luther King Jr.