Cordiner Hall Quotes & Sayings

You don't sound very patriotic," observed Tessa.
"Weren't you just reminiscing about the mountains?"
"Patriotic?" Will looked smug.
"I'll tell you what's patriotic," he said.
"In honor of my birthplace, I've the dragon of Wales tattooed on my - "
"You're in a charming temper, aren't you, William?" interrupted Jem,
though there was no edge to his voice. — Cassandra Clare

You can't make a movie for everybody. You can't go into it trying to alienate people, but you have to assume that you're going to. — Ryan Gosling

Question: What is something you sometimes want so badly you'd search for it your whole life? Answer: Your past Warning: Never look for your past. It always comes looking for you. — John Nuck

Please allow me the honour of allowing you to bestow upon me a blowjob. — Daniel Clowes

HartBeat Productions is a company established by me; it's mine. I run it. I have employees. — Kevin Hart

The Kleinrock controversy is interesting because it shows that most of the Internet's creators preferred - to use the metaphor of the Internet itself - a system of fully distributed credit. They instinctively isolated and routed around any node that tried to claim more significance than the others. The Internet was born of an ethos of creative collaboration and distributed decision making, and its founders liked to protect that heritage. It became ingrained in their personalities - and in the DNA of the Internet itself. — Walter Isaacson

The Bactrian have two humps; the Arabian one only. They are swift in battle and most useful to carry burdens. This animal is extremely observant of rule and measure, for it will not move if it has a greater weight than it is used to, and if it is taken too far it does the same, and suddenly stops and so the merchants are obliged to lodge there. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet. — Chuck D

He's threatening to breed polo ponies, but he's always been a man of great ideas, but little action, so I don't suppose he will. — Rosamunde Pilcher

Don't look so surprised. You didn't think I'd spent my whole life behind this desk, did you?
And I suddenly realized that, well, I guess I had. Weren't all teachers born behind their desks, fully grown, with a red pen in their hand and ready to grade? — Gary D. Schmidt