Cottoning Quotes & Sayings

If you can dream it, it is possible to achieve it. — Lailah Gifty Akita

And the thorny crown of this sad conception was that she whom he really did prefer in a cursory way to the rest, she who knew herself to be more impassioned in nature, cleverer, more beautiful than they, was in the eyes of propriety far less worthy of him than the homelier ones whom he ignored. — Thomas Hardy

I always think the really unfortunate thing about the Australian film industry is its lack of momentum. And I don't mean this in a derogatory way. I'm always wanting it to pick up momentum, and I'm wondering if that's even possible. — Guy Pearce

I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old bindings, and stars in margins next to beautiful passages. I love exuberant underlinings that recall to me a swoon of language-love from a long-ago reading, something I hoped to remember. I love book plates, and inscriptions in gifts from loved ones, I love author signatures, and I love books sitting around reminding me of them, being present in my life, being. I love books. Not just for what they contain. I love them as objects too, as ever-present reminders of what they contain, and because they are beautiful. They are one of my favorite things in life, really at the tiptop of the list, easily my favorite inanimate things in existence, and ... I am just not cottoning on to this idea of making them ... not exist anymore. Making them cease to take up space in the world, in my life? No, please do not take away the physical reality of my books. — Laini Taylor

Most revolutions start small and simmer under the surface gathering strength, adding to an ideology, gaining favourable opinion- first as a
credible alternative and then as the majority view — Gyan Nagpal

See, the Black man gotta fly to get to something the white man can walk to. — Chris Rock

Each time we see and are touched by the expression of some eternal principle, we catch a sweet glimpse of some aspect of our True Self. — Guy Finley

But I could be mistaking our friendship for something more, because I want to mistake it for something more. — Stephanie Perkins

Carefully reaching to the side of my helmet, I got the — Andy Weir

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep. — Matthew Henry