Coolgrange Quotes & Sayings

My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream. — Rand Paul

The man who wishes to keep at the problem long enough to really learn anything positively must not take dangerous risks. Carelessness and overconfidence are usually more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks. — David McCullough

Tears born of laughter feel so much better than those born from pain. — J.B. Salsbury

All things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act. — Elizabeth Edwards

Call on a business man only at business times, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business. — Duke Of Wellington

Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime. — Jennifer Lee

When I look back, no matter how hard I try I can see clear break between one phase and another. It is a seamless flow - although flow is too strong a word. More a sort of busy stasis, a sort of running on the spot. Even that was too fast for me, however, I was always a little way behind, trotting in the rear of my own life. In Dublin I was still the boy growing up at Coolgrange, in America I was the callow young man of Dublin days, on the islands I became a kind of American. And nothing was enough. Everything was coming, was on the way, was about to be. Stuck in the past, I was always peering beyond the present towards a limitless future. Now, I suppose, the future may be said to have arrived. — John Banville

What was the point of starting a new life if she did everything the same as her old one? — Donna Cummings

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new. — Galileo Galilei

I've never gone for having a great voice, for cultivating one. I'm still not doing it now. — Bob Dylan

Good food is a celebration of life. — Sophia Loren

I feel like there's no subject that can't be sung about. I wrote a song dedicated to people with inflammatory bowel disease, and then I wrote about shoes. And mangoes. Every rock should be turned. — Casey Abrams

There are no free lunches in philosophy any more than in real life. — Jaegwon Kim

I wonder what it would be like to be with a boy who blushes when he looks at my skin. — Kiersten White

NIKKI: Really?! What are the ingredients? BRANDON: Just popcorn and caramel candy. Cooks in microwave. NIKKI: That's all?! Very cool! Be right back . . . NIKKI: We have popcorn ! But no caramel candy ! BRANDON: — Rachel Renee Russell

Extraverts are comfortable thinking as they speak. Introverts prefer slow-paced interactions that allow room for thought. Brainstorming does not work for them. Email does. — Laurie Helgoe