Cogitator Quotes & Sayings

bleeding heavily, her eyes flat with — John Sandford

No Names
There are high places
that don't invite us,
sharp shapes, glacier-
scraped faces, whole
ranges whose given names
slip off. Any such relation
as we try to make
refuses to take. Some
high lakes are not for us,
some slick escarpments.
I'm giddy with thinking
where thinking can't stick. — Kay Ryan

Things don't always turn out exactly the way you want them to be and you feel disappointed. You are not always going to be the winner. That's when you have to stop and figure out why things happened the way they did and what you can do to change them. — Jennifer Lopez

I am absolutely, one hundred percent sincere right now- I have your back, and I won't fuck with you. — Gillian Flynn

Obviously there aren't enough Latino roles out there - I wish there were more of them - but there's got to be more in the future. I'm sure there will be more in the future. The public is asking for it. — Paula Garces

I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show. — Debra Messing

I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard College. — Samuel Parris

People use rewards expecting to gain the benefit of increasing another person's motivation and behavior, but in so doing, they often incur the unintentional and hidden cost of undermining that person's intrinsic motivation toward the activity. — Daniel H. Pink

I stuck my hands deep in my pockets, looked the Seelie Queen right in the eye and muttered, Because. He fell in love with my princess. — Julie Kagawa

You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong. — Alan Hansen

Every generation has their challenge. And things change rapidly, and life gets better in an instant. — Jon Stewart

Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high. — Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin

I have not drawn a very rosy picture of the magician. I did not intend to do so. To the novice entering the life and promising himself ease, indolence, and wealth, I should say, Don't! — Alexander Herrmann