Stephen Coffey Quotes & Sayings

The drive for equality failed for a much more fundamental reason. It went against one of the most basic instincts of all human beings. In the words of Adam Smith, "The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition"9 - and, one may add, the condition of his children and his children's children. Smith, of course, meant by "condition" not merely material well-being, though certainly that was one component. He had a much broader concept in mind, one that included all of the values by which men judge their success - in particular the kind of social values that gave rise to the outpouring of philanthropic activities in the nineteenth century. — Milton Friedman

Docs are more exhausting because of the physical labor that's required. Feature filmmaking is more exhausting because of politics and the bullshit. You get to the point of rolling film and until you lock picture it's one political game after another. They're both struggles for survival. They are two different worlds. — George Hickenlooper

There are a lot of decisions to make, creatively. Now, with digital, you can really be the author of your own work. From the beginning to the end of the process, you control everything. — Gregory Heisler

We like to hunt and golf and drive around lost, and scratch and spit, and a whole lot of other disgusting stuff. — Tracy Byrd

We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country. — Boris Johnson

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

Nothing beats a failure but a try. — R.J. Smith

I knew I was in trouble, but I thought I was in hell. — Elvis Costello

Is this love - this easy generosity, this sense of being understood at last, of not having to pretend? — J.M. Coetzee

John Coffey was torn open by what he had done ... but he would live. The girls would not. They had been torn open in a more fundamental way. — Stephen King

Paul Edgecomb: What do you want me to do John? I'll do it. You want me to let you walk out of here and see how far you get?
John Coffey: Now why would you want to do a foolish thing like that?
Paul Edgecomb: When I die and I stand before God awaiting judgment and he asks me why I let one of HIS miracles die, what am I gonna say, that it was my job? — Stephen King

It is our nature to defy gravity, to transcend the limitations of the reasoning mind and connect with the realm of the mystical truth. — Caroline Myss

Business is not the aim of life; it's a game. — Suleyman Kerimov

I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin to or why. I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I can't. — Stephen King

If I wanted your opinion, I'd beat it outta ya. - Walker Texas Ranger — Chuck Norris

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there. — Trudi Canavan

There's too much of everything - too many bands, too many albums, too much information all the time. You're seeing fewer album releases treated as big events, because of the influx. It's almost a "here this week, forgotten next week" thing. — Matt Smith

All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism. — John Lukacs