Mccobb Quotes & Sayings

It's the wild colour scheme that freaks me," said Zaphod whose love affair with this ship had lasted almost three minutes into the flight, "Every time you try to operate on of these weird black controls that are labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to let you know you've done it. What is this? Some kind of galactic hyperhearse? — Douglas Adams

Paris dictates fashion to the whole world. — Maria Callas

Stories are not mere flights of fantasy or instruments of political power and control. They link us to our past, provide us with critical insight into the present and enable us to envision our lives not just as they are but as they should be or might become. Imaginative knowledge is not something you have today and discard tomorrow. It is a way of perceiving the world and relating to it. — Azar Nafisi

I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period. — Brenda Blethyn

The Thames is liquid history. — John Burns

Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth. — Robert Nozick

Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work? — Tom Hodgkinson

Her address book confirmed it, the pages inhabited equally by the living and the dead ... Each name called up raucous dinner parties and gin-and-tonics on sunny patios, lazy Saturday afternoons at the swim club, station wagons filled with noisy boys in polyester baseball uniforms. — Stewart O'Nan

I'm the kind of person who always follows the manual. No shortcuts. — Russell Banks

But our purpose is to serve and love others and to shine brightly for God. No matter what." The — Karen Kingsbury

Be practical,
be skillful,
be teachable,
and you will be successful. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in themselves, not the way they look to you or how you feel about them or how you would like them to be. — Harry Frankfurt

Let us ask whether medicine is winning the war against death. The answer is obviously no, it isn't winning: the one fundamental rule of human existence remains, unfortunately, one man one death. — Theodore Dalrymple