Cooperstein Downingtown Quotes & Sayings

It's nice to have something else going on when a book comes out so you're not just sitting by the phone, waiting for things to happen. You don't want to be the guy Googling himself all day. — Jonathan Dee

By the mile it's a trial, but by the inch it's a cinch. — Zig Ziglar

I endured all our hardships as if they had been luxuries: I made light of scurvy, banqueted off train-oil, and met that cold for which there is no language framed, and which might be a new element; or which, rather, had seemed in that long night like the vast void of ether beyond the uttermost star, where was neither air nor light nor heat, but only bitter negation and emptiness. I was hardly conscious of my body; I was only a concentrated search in myself. — Harriet Prescott Spofford

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. — Andre Maurois

Harriet! I've never met anyone called Harriet in real life. I had a brief fantasy about her being Harriet Vane, because she'd be about the right age for that, except that Harriet Vane would be addressed as Lady Peter, and anyway she's fictional. I can tell the difference, really I can. — Jo Walton

Passion without perseverance
is fire without fuel. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

I live, therefore I make films. I make film, therefore I live. Life. Movement. I make home movies, therefore I live. I live, therefore I make home movies. — Jonas Mekas

Don't do what's right to get something. Do the right thing because it's the right thing. — Joyce Meyer

Watson, if the newspapers could be punished for speculation, every publication in England would soon enough be bankrupted. — Lyndsay Faye

Heaven
Is as the Book of God before thee set,
Wherein to read His wondrous works. — John Milton

If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums. — Nelson Mandela