Mason Cooley Quotes
Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
Quotes to Explore
-
One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
-
To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.
-
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
-
If Muslims curse the Christians, then the Christians will curse the Muslims. And people will curse Allah, and Allah will hold us responsible for that.
-
My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which gives me time to write stupid books about it.
-
There were times when I thought I would never own a car.
-
Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job.
-
I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.
-
There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.
-
We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.
-
'Crystal Fairy' was one of the first movies I did after I recommitted to the idea of acting.
-
You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
-
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
-
Success is carved out of a hard tree. It doesn't just happen. It's people who stick to it that succeed.
-
Rue Froidevaux seemed to go on forever, as if the distances stretched to infinity.
-
Of course Celia shits! Who doesn't? And how much worse if she didn't.
-
'Recent Gains in the Quest for Peace' in The World tomorrow Vol. 11, No. 1 (January 1928), p. 8; including a quote from the Communist song 'The Advancing Proletaire.'
-
Objections to religious mysticism lose their force if they can equally be turned against natural mysticism.
-
You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable.
-
Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.
-
As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.
-
Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
