Corky Famous Quotes & Sayings

The planet of humans and dogs spins and sails, spins and sails.
There is nothing I can do about it. Things keep moving. The knackery never shuts down. — Andrew Smith

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world. — Peter Zumthor

That done, I sank into an uneasy sleep wherein I dreamed of an assembly line of pale, bloodless girls walking down an endless dark street and moaning softly for help. Somewhere, toward the edge of my inner vision, a shadowy figure pursued them with long, beckoning arms.
Goddamn booze!
Somewhere in the midst of this ghoulish girl parade Cairncross materialized and hung a garland of garlic around my neck, glaring at me with his good eye and intoning, 'Go and sin no more.'
Vincenzo appeared at Cairncross' side and together they laughed insanely, then vanished in a puff of sulphurous smoke.
I made several high-minded resolutions, muttered half-heard but sincere-sounding prayers to all the recently deposed saints, thrashed and rolled clean off the bed.
I might just as well have stayed up. — Jeff Rice

Writers are always selling somebody out. — Joan Didion

Generally, I don't like to walk out of a movie. It's like a relationship - you want to see it to the end; otherwise, you won't know if you left early or not. — David Duchovny

I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting ... . I will never talk down to, or draw down to, children. — Barbara Cooney

The tension between the call to the desert and to the market place arises not from the greater presence of God in one or the other but from our varying psychological needs to apprehend him in different ways. — Sheila Cassidy

In late 2009, I returned to Baghdad after a lengthy absence. I was living alone, in the Hamra Hotel, the twice bombed-out de facto international news bureau. — Michael Hastings

Just don't forsake the present for the unknowns of the future. — Kim Holden

Never be without remembrance of Him, for His remembrance gives strength and wings to the bird of the Spirit. — Rumi