Cottam Quotes & Sayings

Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an accident that leaves them at the mercy of that darkness is part of the DNA of Chile, an integral part of the country's history. — Ariel Dorfman

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble. — Robert Rauschenberg

Suggested Reading Louis Bayard, The Black Tower; Sarah Blake, Grange House; F. G. Cottam, The House of Lost Souls; Michael Cox, The Glass of Time; Mark Frost, The List of Seven; John Harwood, The Ghost Writer; Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale. — Susan Hill

If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;
and if it is true that people can walk about and do their business without brains,
then certes the soul does not inhabit there. — Laurence Sterne

Every image is in some way a "portrait," not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but in that it pulls and draws (this is the semantic and etymological sense of the word), in that it extracts something, an intimacy, a force. — Sally Mann

As long as I am acting out of love, I feel I am doing best I know how. — Donna Tartt

Even when they desert hell, men do so only to reconstruct it elsewhere. — Emil Cioran

Oh unicorn, Oh magic good, Let me laugh as a child should, Let the gift of childhood, Come back to me, For one day, Just, as it should. — S Rob

No one grows up, they just get tired. Or few indeed. No stopping for dead animals on the turnpike. Too dangerous. — Jim Harrison

When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it. — Zach Wamp

Magic is a door to which we have lost the key. But the door is there. — F.G. Cottam

Even more bothersome was the fact that Eddie Kuntz's napkin was moving on his lap without benefit of hands. My first inclination was to shout "Snake!" and shoot, but probably that wouldn't hold up in court. Besides, as much as I disliked Eddie Kuntz, I could sort of identify with a man who got a stiffie over banana cream pie. — Janet Evanovich

Silence is a necessary requirement for unnatural acts. — Kathryn Cottam

I'm no angel." - Lillian Hayes

"Who wants an angel anyway." - Nicholas Brace

Dangerous Ties by Debra Parmley — Debra Parmley

I love cars more than women. Why? you ask. Well when a car has a problem you take to the mechanic to sort the problem out, when a women has a problem you won't know until its too late — Morena Baloyi

Some people have goodness and merit buried deep inside and we glimpse it and see its value but ultimately it's covered by so much dirt that it's a 24/7 exercise in archaeology. — Kelli Jae Baeli

I remember the big gaping hole left by my dad's absence in the months following the accident. He'd been the one who went to my parent-teacher conferences, the one who taught me mnemonics to memorize the Great Lakes and the Earth's atmospheres. Whenever I did something silly, my dad always made me feel better by telling me a story from the firehouse about someone who had done something even sillier. Sometimes you don't realize all the things a person does for you until they aren't there to do them anymore. — Paula Stokes