Coson Home Quotes & Sayings

Music makes me forget myself, my real position; it transports me to some other position not my own. Under the influence of music it seems to me that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that I can do what I cannot do. I explain it by the fact that music acts like yawning, like laughter: I am not sleepy, but I yawn when I see someone yawning; there is nothing for me to laugh at, but I laugh when I hear people laughing.
Music carries me immediately and directly into the mental condition in which the man was who composed it. My soul merges with his and together with him I pass from one condition into another, but why this happens I don't know. — Leo Tolstoy

It ate a party till someone ends up naked. — Lois Greiman

Scions of old families who've hit the skids do like to flaunt their illustrious ancestors.... — Charlotte MacLeod

Every creature thinks itself best in its own element, that is the place it thrives in, and enjoys its happiness in; now Christ is the element of a Christian. — Richard Sibbes

I was born in 1971, and Tom Baker was sort of my obsession as a kid and that's why we got him to do the voice over for 'Little Britain' because I was actually obsessed with Tom Baker. — David Walliams

It had taken four years. — David McCullough

Golf is a non-violent game played violently from within. — Bob Toski

For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it ... — Patrick O'Brian

Food's the killer. The clock starts as soon as the troops are on the ground. You wouldn't believe how fast they consume what they're carrying, and then ... if I don't get them more, if I don't find them more ... they die. — Henry V. O'Neil

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. — Lisa Mantchev

When I was young, I used to tell my mum that she had to get me on the TV, but then modelling just sort of happened. — Alyssa Sutherland

The half-concealed disasters that constitute a life. — Don DeLillo

One will in two minds, one heart in two bodies, and two bodies in one flesh. — George Pettie