Coggan Auctions Quotes & Sayings

Only through suffering do we learn — Aeschylus

Be a part of all that is decent and be an ambassador for the kind of world that you want to live in, — Julie Andrews

wasn't a storm meant to destroy - but it was the perfect storm of God's purifying and refining grace. — Kimberly Wagner

And how are the other weak ones to blame, because they could not endure what the strong have endured? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Innocent people's lives were ruined, where there are necessarily lots of idiots. — Mehmet Kececi

Music is interior decoration. — Wayne Shorter

Collecting anything requires a singularity of focus, but 78 collecting demands an almost-inhuman level of concentration. There is a violence to the search, a dysfunctional aggression that vacillates between repellent and endearingly quirky. It's intimidating to outsiders, and it feeds on sacrifice. — Amanda Petrusich

The truths I shun follow me, mumbling. — Mason Cooley

You'll sleep in my bed every night. There are times when I'll want to bind you in the bed so that you're helpless and dependent on me for everything. I'll make love to you while you're spread out and tied to my bedposts. Where your body will be available to me whenever I choose to take it. And I'll take you often, Joss. Before we go to bed at night. During the night. And first thing in the morning before you're fully awake. I'll slide into your beautiful body and I'll be the first thing you feel each morning. I'll be the last thing you know when you go to sleep at night. And you'll go to bed knowing you are mine and that you belong, heart and soul, to me. You'll never have cause to doubt it because not a day will go by that I won't prove that to you. — Maya Banks

Ordering is very important with essays, even if a reader doesn't read the essays or the poems in order through the book. — Pattiann Rogers

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Hell's only the flip side of Paradise. Sometimes it's hard to differentiate between the two. — Sara Craven

sometimes life's like a bad waiter and serves you exactly what you don't want. You can cry and scream and order him to take it back, but in the end, you're the one who has to deal with what's finally set before you. — Lorna Landvik