Kogan Quotes & Sayings

I am nothing if not rational about what is worthy of my anxiety and what is not, and I refuse to live my life as if a giant bus is just around the corner, waiting to crush me the minute I step off the curb. — Deborah Copaken Kogan

Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt — Maya Angelou

If we have to, we can do anything. We are strong, and when one of us isn't feeling all that invincible, the other will always take the wheel. We are women. — Lisa Kogan

I'd always assumed that by 40 I'd have at least a modicum of stability - a steady income, an established career, a bountiful fullness, like a pillow into which I could sink as I entered the second half of my life. — Deborah Copaken Kogan

When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood. — Deborah Copaken Kogan

When I was extremely young and shockingly stupid, I thought you weren't supposed to ever get angry at anybody you cared about (lest you suspect I'm exaggerating the "shockingly stupid" part, I also thought Mount Rushmore was a natural phenomenon). I honestly believed that people who were truly in love would never dream of having a good, old-fashioned, knock-down, drag-out fight. I guess when you're the type of girl who walks around thinking that the wind just sort of sculpted Teddy Roosevelt into the side of a mountain, the concept of a fairy-tale relationship makes total sense. — Lisa Kogan

My husband and I were born three weeks apart, and our plan had always been to throw a joint party for our 40th birthdays. — Deborah Copaken Kogan

Anybody who understands the justice system knows innocent people are convicted every day. — Gerald Kogan

Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles. — Deborah Copaken Kogan

After all, nobody could get out from the dangerous place, something was going bad and I could be felt... (Hidden 2015) — Deyth Banger

Blood will have blood. — William Shakespeare

Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it! — Deborah Copaken Kogan

A rose is not its thorns, a peach is not its fuzz and a human being is not his or her crankiness. — Lisa Kogan

When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing his novels has been as good a lesson as any. — Deborah Copaken Kogan

Rick Kogan comments regarding book, "1968-A Story As Relevant Today As It Was Then" on website After Hours with Rick Kogan. — William Natale

It doesn't make any difference if you are in favor of capital punishment or if you are opposed to capital punishment. The fact of the matter is that as a viable penalty, capital punishment does not work at this time and has not worked in the State of Florida for many, many years. — Gerald Kogan

Life simply blew through her. — Valeria Kogan

The right of the Gabbitas and Kogan Page to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 0 7494 6747 0 — Gabbitas Educational Consultants

Everything else seemed trivial; like talking about your favourite film while your airplane is falling out of the sky. — Valeria Kogan

Because that was the problem, really, wasn't it, with being human? You couldn't just be, couldn't just live and exist without dragging your feet through the mud. You had to communicate, congregate, collaborate, cohabiate. You had to corroborate. Copulate. You had to co-this, co-that, co - bloody-everything, and if you weren't co-operating you were operating with the co, which was a declaration less of independence than of relativity. You could only really exist in relation to others. — Deborah Copaken Kogan

I do miss the excitement of seeing history up close, of having intimate knowledge, through direct experience, of what happens when people and governments clash, but I do not miss the danger or the constant displacement. — Deborah Copaken Kogan

I have an Emmy, but it's no big deal: work in TV news long enough, you eventually get one. — Deborah Copaken Kogan

I think Social Security should be bipartisan and it should transcend the next election, and you should get the best ideas of the Democrats and of the Republicans, and move forward with the best. — Jack Kingston

The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body. — Henry David Thoreau

I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being President. — Hillary Clinton

I believe in love. I believe it transforms, transports, and transcends. I believe it fine-tunes goodness, solidifies strength, ripens resolve, eradicates rage, alleviates stress, and elevates empathy. — Lisa Kogan

It's about enhancing your body and accentuating your good areas. Shapewear isn't the ugly, embarrassing granny undies they used to be - they really are sexy. — Ricki-Lee Coulter

This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it. — Deborah Copaken Kogan

Jung Min made my nickname. An animal called otter. At first I didn't know what exactly an otter was. So I didn't like it and said I didn't look like an otter. But one day, one of our fans upload its picture. It looked so cute. Since then, I've liked it. — Heo Young-saeng

I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary. — Deborah Copaken Kogan