Coughtrie Quotes & Sayings

I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan. — Ridley Scott

That is why I have called feminism nihilism. It says that being a woman is nothing definite and that the duty of women is to advance that nothingness as a cause. — Harvey Mansfield

In a text, there's this voice that speaks to you from a position of power, that doesn't communicate that it's doing that at all and tries to hide its power. We were trying to be overt about what power was happening, and speak in a way that wasn't so fucking sure of itself. If it was sure of itself it was in the form of a performance. — Anonymous

He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences. — John Irving

I find that in California I can't find guys that have enough energy. They play a little bit and that's about it. They play less. If I start a tune and then the pianist has to solo, I am looking to everybody to get to a certain climate and then I come back in while the energy is up high. Somehow that doesn't happen. — Pharoah Sanders

Success is when you realize obstacles you face are challenges to help you become better - and your response equals the challenge. — Stephen Covey

There is no art which affords less opportunity to execute expression than photography. Everything is concentrated in a few seconds, when after perhaps an hours seeking, waiting, and hesitation, the photographer sees the realization of his inward vision, and in that moment he has one advantage over most arts - his medium is swift enough to record his momentary inspiration. — Sadakichi Hartmann

But there was not a moment when she did not see Carol in her mind, and all she saw, she seemed to see through Carol. That evening, the dark flat streets of New York, the tomorrow of work, the milk bottle dropped and broken in her sink, became unimportant. She flung herself on her bed and drew a line with a pencil on a piece of paper. And another line, carefully, and another. A world was born around her, like a bright forest with a million shimmering leaves. — Patricia Highsmith

Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds the one who d trusts in the LORD. — Anonymous

When disasters come at the same time, they compete with each other. — Naguib Mahfouz

Australia! Australians! Surely it's still full of Magwitch-types, lumbering oafs with shaven pates and broken noses on the run from whatever law there is, chucking kangaroo heads on the barbie as they read their awful bush poetry. — Dave Franklin

Waiting for the end to come,
Wishing I had strength to stand,
This is not what I had planned,
It's out of my control — Linkin Park

Not all deceptions are palatable. Untruths are too easy to come by, too quickly exploded, too cheap and ephemeral to give lasting comfort. Mundus vult decipi, but there is a hierarchy of deceptions.
Near the bottom of the ladder is journalism: a steady stream of irresponsible distortions that most people find refreshing although on the morning after, or at least within a week, it will be stale and flat.
On a higher level we find fictions that men eagerly believe, regardless of the evidence, because they gratify some wish.
Near the top of the ladder we encounter curious mixtures of untruth and truth that exert a lasting fascination on the intellectual community. — Walter Kaufmann

If you can't do it with one bullet, don't do it at all. — Sean Connery