Inspirational Cookie Monster Quotes & Sayings

That which shrinks must first expand. — Laozi

It is shallow desires which make a young man bold; strong desires confound him. — Giacomo Casanova

You can't change anything from the outside in. Standing apart, looking down, talking the overview, you see pattern. What's wrong, what's missing. You want to fix it. But you can't patch it. You have to be in it, weaving it. You have to be part of the weaving. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilerated speechlessness. — Yann Martel

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one's country — George S. Patton Jr.

People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We don't get the greatest tools to deal with anger. It's like, 'Hey, count to 10.' When someone really upsets me, how do I respond? I don't usually start counting to 10 and breathing deeply. — Woody Harrelson

Founders: there is no shame in failing, take pride in that you have the guts to try something new. — Kevin Rose

I am an idealist who believes in reality, and who, therefore, in all i write strive to be real, to keep both my own feet and the feet of my readers on the ground so that no matter how high we dream our dreams will be based on reality — Jack London

Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense. — Thomas Frank

I was a bit of a handful when I was a kid because I was quite hyperactive. Even in the house my mum used to put me in my pram because I was so full-on. — Zayn Malik