Cotonetes Quotes & Sayings

No physical activity is so vain as boxing. A man gets into the ring to attract admiration. In no sport, therefore, can you be more humiliated. — Norman Mailer

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born. — Yann Martel

I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps. — Les Dawson

That which you fix your heart to, believing with all your desire you will get, you will. — Jeff Wheeler

The President publicly apologized today to all those offended by his brother's remark, There's more Arabs in this country than there is Jews! Those offended include Arabs, Jews, and English teachers. — Jimmy Carter

The difference is an objective phenomenon of soil science; what we call "soil" is a community of living, mostly microscopic organisms in a nutrient matrix. Organic farming, by definition, enhances the soil's living and nonliving components. Modern conventional farming is an efficient reduction of that process that adds back just a few crucial nutrients of the many that are removed each year when biomass is harvested ... Chemicals that sterilize the soil destroy organisms that fight plant diseases, aerate, and manufacture fertility. Recent research has discovered that just adding phosphorus (the P in all "NPK" fertilizers) kills the tiny filaments of fungi that help plants absorb nutrients. — Barbara Kingsolver

Hating someone is giving them too much, just leave them alone. — Henry Rollins

In the context of a question regarding what an artist might be, I would want to raise the question of what a theorist might be, to signal how inextricably linked these existences and practices might be. — James Elkins

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory. — Plato

I fall so hard inside the idea of you — Dave Matthews Band

Who doesn't need hope in their lives: hope that something can change, that someone cares, that not only bad things happen unexpectedly but good things can happen to us too? — Danielle Steel

It's the way humanity is; give them what they want, and it turns out it's not what they wanted after all. — Kelsey Sutton