Cozzi Corner Quotes & Sayings

those who led were the lowest of men, for they were required to serve everyone. — Brandon Sanderson

In my late thirties the dream of disappointment and exhaustion had been the dream of the exploding head: the dream of a noise in my head so loud and long that I felt with the brain that survived that the brain could not survive; that this was death. Now, in my early fifties, after my illness, after I had left the manor cottage and put an end to that section of my life, I began to be awakened by thoughts of death, the end of things; and sometimes not even by thoughts so specific, not even by fear rational or fantastic, but by a great melancholy. This melancholy penetrated my mind while I slept; and then, when I awakened in response to its prompting, I was so poisoned by it, made so much not a doer (as men must be, every day of their lives), that it took the best part of the day to shake it off. And that wasted or dark day added to the gloom preparing for the night. — V.S. Naipaul

I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor ... I'm sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time. — Callan McAuliffe

Calm?" I screeched. "Calm? Ryan, I nearly killed you! How could I possibly be calm?" Ryan studied my face for a minute and then rolled his eyes.
His smile turned to a frown. "You're not going to let me kiss you ever again, are you?" It wasn't really a question.
"And you say you're not that smart. — Kelly Oram

The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art. — Ricky Jay

You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong. — Stephen Richards

The institutions of psychiatry, law enforcement, and goverment have proved that no matter what our resources, you cannot reliable control the conduct of CRAZY PEOPLE. It is not fair, but it is so — Gavin De Becker

I initially thought 'Lewis' was a terrible idea. The character had very much been Morse's work donkey and sounding board. But I was persuaded to do it, thinking if it was a flop, at least ITV would stop asking me. But the pilot took off, so we got back on this moving train, and we've never looked back. — Kevin Whately

He thought about his long life and gave thanks for all the bounty and joy that he had been given. To want more, to wish for yet more, he knew, would be petty. He sighed happily, and listened to the wind sweeping down from the mountains, to the chirping of night birds. — Khaled Hosseini

Even when the dark comes crashing through, when you need someone to carry you, when you're broken on the ground, you will be found. — Dear Evan Hansen

The theater's much the most difficult kind of writing for me, the most naked kind, you're so entirely restricted ... I find myself stuck with these characters who are either sitting or standing, and they've either got to walk out of a door, or come in through a door, and that's about all they can do. — Harold Pinter

The stars are putting on their glittering belts,
They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash
Like a great shadow's last embellishment — Wallace Stevens

Listening to him, I realized how long it had been since I'd felt like I had the world by the balls, how many quick birthdays had gone by since that first year in Europe when I was so ignorant and so confident that every splinter of luck made me feel like a roaring champion. — Hunter S. Thompson