Cooters Garage Quotes & Sayings

I've seen what commitment leads to, and it isn't pretty. Going in is the easy part. It's the endings that suck. — Sarah Dessen

Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs. — Daniel H. Pink

spaces that at first may appear to reflect a simple condition are much more complex when the actions of individuals and groups are factored in. These unique patterns of movement through space can and should guide the architecture we build to serve them. For space only becomes truly public when people recognize it and utilize it as such. Great public space cannot be built as much as curated; it is architecture's responsibility to craft space in response to specific needs and unique practices. . . . it is not the space itself that is meaningful; it is the way space facilitates diversity, interaction, and new negotiations that makes it meaningful [David Adjaye, "Djemaa El-Fnaa, Marrakech: Engaging with Complexity and Diversity"]. — Catie Marron

Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell. — Dag Hammarskjold

Off come her skirts and petticoats, her lace cuffs and collar, her shoes and whalebone stay, until she lies on her side in nothing but a cotton shift and endless strands of pearls. Dust hangs in a crack of light between red velvet drapes, like stars.

Her dreams are glimpses, bewildered--celestial charts, oceanic swells, massive, moving bodies of water, the heavens as heavenly liquid, familiar whirlpools, the universe as a ship lost at sea--but the ship she imagines arrived safely, years ago, loaded with their possessions. — Danielle Dutton

She was a mother. One who is mother only to her own children is not a mother; she is only a woman who has borne children. But here was one of God's mothers. — George MacDonald

Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual — James W. Loewen

No, Eichmann assured him, there was no specific talk of killing methods.

-- The Eichmann Trial, page 137 — Deborah E. Lipstadt

History's long arc is different than the today's headlines. — Condoleezza Rice

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. — Mary Shelley

No self is of itself alone — Erwin Schrodinger

Cooking is a life skill. We need to eat every day so why not find out about what you're putting into your body? — William Katt

This was nothing like Tokyo, where the past, all that remained of it, was nurtured with a nervous care. History there had become a quantity, a rare thing, parceled out by government and preserved by law and corporate funding. Here it seemed the very fabric of things, as if the city were a single growth of stone and brick, uncounted strata of message and meaning, age upon age, generated over the centuries to the dictates of some now-all-but-unreadable DNA of commerce and empire. — William Gibson

There used to be three networks, and now there are 40 million networks. There's a lot more competition out there, too. We would bring in 27 million people. Now, they're lucky if they have 17. I looked at the ratings, for the first time in 25 years, just to see, and there were 130 shows on. There used to be maybe 30. — Larry Hagman