Cozeners Quotes & Sayings

I like what I see now in China, but I think the Japanese are a step ahead into craziness and weirdness. I go to galleries there that are the size of a New York elevator, and every time I'm surprised by the amazing things I find. I really hope I'll be able to promote some of these artists, to show their work in the West. — Jean Pigozzi

Why?' is always the most difficult question to answer. You know where you are when someone asks you 'What's the time?' or 'When was the battle of 1066?' or 'How do these seatbelts work that go tight when you slam the brakes on, Daddy?' The answers are easy and are, respectively, 'Seven-thirty in the evening,' 'Ten-fifteen in the morning,' and 'Don't ask stupid questions. — Douglas Adams

I didn't just see a child in my dreams - I felt it in my heart. — Seth Adam Smith

Criminality was so widespread that its practitioners split into fields of specialization. Some became coney catchers, or swindlers (a coney was a rabbit reared for the table and thus unsuspectingly tame); others became foists (pickpockets), nips, or nippers (cutpurses), hookers (who snatched desirables through open windows with hooks), abtams (who feigned lunacy to provide a distraction), whipjacks, fingerers, cross biters, cozeners, courtesy men, and many more. Brawls were shockingly common. — Bill Bryson

the goal is to get old without getting feeble. — Lou Schuler

An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery. — Enrico Fermi

One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits. — Suzanne Curchod

Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70. — Thomas Jefferson

If you cannot be accused of exclusivity, you are not discipling. — Howard G. Hendricks

What do we see by [our enlightened age] which our ancestors saw not, and which at the same time is worth seeing? We see a hundred men hanged, where they saw one. We see five hundred transported, where they saw one. We see five thousand in the workhouse, where they saw one ... We see children perishing in manufactories, where they saw them flourishing in the fields. We see prisons, where they saw castles. We see masters, where they saw representatives. In short, they saw true men, where we see false knaves. They saw Milton, and we see Mr. Sackbut. — Thomas Love Peacock

Music is what I love to do. Music, fashion, a couple of chairs, I'm cool, I'm grateful. — Pharrell Williams

You never told me all this before," I said, by way of explanation. "You all have divided
up America into kingdoms, is that right? — Charlaine Harris