Coffenbury Quotes & Sayings

Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security. — Heather Brooke

She had always found platypuses irresistible proof that God likes a joke as much as anyone else. — Kerry Greenwood

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world. — Thomas Carlyle

Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion. — Arthur Helps

The doors of the world are open to dose who can read. — Ben Carson

A great work must be novel without being far-fetched, frequently sublime, but always natural. The author must know the human heart, and how to make it speak; he must be a poet, without letting any of his characters speak like poets; and he must be a master of his language, using it purely and harmoniously and not letting the rhyme interfere with the sense. — Voltaire

Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing- singing, laughing, learning. — Sylvia Plath

She kept her doors and windows locked, unless she was using them. — Arundhati Roy

The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear. — Philip K. Dick

I finished 'Beautiful Creature,' and I felt somewhat unfulfilled. I felt like this other side of me needed to be released. Some of the songs I left off the album weren't intense enough to be what I wanted. They weren't hard enough. — Juliana Hatfield

It's a fucking plastic stake, even a lightsaber from star war would have done the job better. — Cameron Jace

The world is not a 'thing' (eternal element). It is a wrong belief (vikalp) of the Soul. — Dada Bhagwan

I have mentioned already, by the way, that though he lost his mother in his fourth year he remembered her all his life - her face, her caresses, "as though she stood living before me." Such memories may persist, as every one knows, from an even earlier age, even from two years old, but scarcely standing out through a whole lifetime like spots of light out of darkness, like a corner torn out of a huge picture, which has all faded and disappeared except that fragment. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky