Couvert Quotes & Sayings

You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny. — Elaine Stritch

My mother and father were supportive. But in an Italian family, you kind of work with your hands, or you are an engineer or a doctor. But an actor was something they couldn't get hold of. They were afraid I wouldn't be able to make a living, and for many years, they were right. — Michael Rispoli

It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners. — William Browning Spencer

Hume argued powerfully that human reason is fundamentally similar to that of the other animals, founded on instinct rather than quasi-divine insight into things. — David Hume

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. — A.A. Milne

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine. — Seamus Heaney

The Nolan's just could't get enough of life. They lived their own lives up to the hilt but that wasn't enough. They had to fill in on the lives of all the people they made contact with. — Betty Smith

There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work. — Aleister Crowley

You know ... confessing to avoid prosecution is a time-honored strategy.
I don't want to be honored with time. Honor me with "slap-on-the-wrist," or maybe even "scot free. — Howard Tayler

Most of the time when I have met artists who have meant a lot to me, the experience has been well above expectation. People like Iggy, Lou Reed, Jerry Lee Lewis, Black Sabbath, Nick Cave, Hubert Selby Jr, Billy Gibbons, Al Pacino, John Lee Hooker, James Brown, Johnny Cash etc. have been really great to me. What strikes me is most of the time, the bigger the celeb/legend, the more polite and cool they are. It's the insecure ones who treat you like they're doing you a favor by shaking your hand. — Henry Rollins

Thank God for God . — George Purvis