Couthie Quotes & Sayings

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now ... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph. — George Saunders

This is the thing about the service industry, you can get trained to be slick and hospitable in any situation and it serves you well the rest of your life. Once you figure out that everything is performance and you bow to that, learn to modulate, you can dissociate from the mothership of yourself like an astronaut floating in space. — Merritt Tierce

Comedians like to see people smile. With acting, I love giving people a feeling, an emotion. I like to give people a feeling. When they come away from my scene, I want them to think. — Keke Palmer

We really don't rest if we think our kids are drifting, or if we think they don't have the right work ethic. It drives us crazy. Because we ultimately want them to succeed and, until they do, we feel in some way that something is not complete. — Kevin Costner

By cool Siloam's shady rill How sweet the lily grows! — Reginald Heber

Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come. — Charles Caleb Colton

More often than not "fair" and "balanced" may be mutually exclusive — Neal Gabler

The human form was never [formed] to beget children. This tendency among people to cohabit is nothing but animal instinct inherited from all the previous lives of evolution from the stone to the human form. — Meher Baba

Whatever we are we belong together. Wherever we are, we will find each other. Whoever we are we are forever one. — Leonard Nimoy

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard. — James Russell Lowell