Coquis Washington Quotes & Sayings

The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man. — Jean Renoir

If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I'd need: food, shelter, and a grip. — George C. Scott

What happens is, especially when I was writing for my band, Creedence, and it's the way I write now, I go into "guitar lick" mode. When I do, it sort of leads into a real song. I'd say to myself, your songwriting is coming up with a guitar lick, and the rest is easy! — John Fogerty

You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some scandal, but people are scandalized all the time; it's a way of life for them. It doesn't mean a thing. If you ask if I want my fiction to change anything in the culture, the answer is still no. What I want is to possess my readers while they are reading my book
if I can, to possess them in ways that other writers don't. Then let them return, just as they were, to a world where everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt, and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise, to have set loose in them the consciousness that's otherwise conditioned and hemmed in by all that isn't fiction. This is something that every child, smitten by books, understands immediately, though it's not at all a childish idea about the importance of reading. — Philip Roth

A man's work and the conditions under which it is performed are tremendous factors in determining his character. — Charles A. Beard

The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything. — Adela Rogers St. Johns

Live each moment completely and the future will take care of itself. Fully enjoy the wonder and beauty of each moment. — Paramahansa Yogananda

I'm looking forward to the noose. Nothing better than a good hanging. — Victoria Lamb

When I start to write something, I suppose I want it to change me, to make me into something not myself. — Jamaica Kincaid

We didn't have practical model rockets in the '50s. The ones we made were very dangerous and the kids that played with them didn't have all their fingers, and sometimes were blind in one eye. — Burt Rutan

Over the long term, innovation and increasing productivity are what drive growth. — Anonymous

Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run — Jeff Buckley