Coorie Quotes & Sayings

Most of the time you can get away with launching a terrible product, or with not washing your hands, but one time in a thousand, you will kill a person, or a company. — Megan McArdle

Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations. — Edward Sapir

Once I really looked at the sky, I wanted to go on looking; it seemed to draw me towards it and make me listen hard, though there was nothing to listen to, not so much as a twig was stirring. — Dodie Smith

I do no damage. This is damage, this."
He picked up a paper from Camille's desk. "I can't read your writing, but I take it the general tenor is that Brissot should go and hang himself. — Hilary Mantel

The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits. — Mandy Patinkin

Eyes that droop like summer flowers. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

For if nature abhors a vacuum, and greed is part of human nature, then greed too abhors a vacuum. — Moises Naim

If she'd been quizzed as to His Grace's eye color, she would've had to reply simply that they were dark. Which they were. Very dark, nearly black, but not quite. The Duke of Wakefield's eyes were a deep, rich brown, like coffee newly brewed, like walnut wood oiled and polished, like seal fur shining in the light, and even though they were rather lovely to look at, they were as cold as iron in winter. One touch and her very soul might freeze. — Elizabeth Hoyt

We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege. — Pierre Trudeau

Her hips were long and narrow, her bust was large, and she wore close-fitting skirts and sweaters and high heels that gave a tight arch of impatience to the muscles of her calves; her step was small and pretty and her laughter violent, total, and critical. — Saul Bellow

A government is for the benefit of all the people. — William Howard Taft

When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town. — Robert Bridges

God does nothing apart from prayer, but he does everything by it. — John Welch

People do think you're more intelligent if you have dark hair. But my husband definitely prefers me as a blonde. — Malin Akerman

Its just the anniversary, she wanted to tell him. Its just this time of the year stirring up these memories. Everything will be all right. But she couldn't say that, because she wasn't sure it was true. — Elizabeth Chandler