Mason Cooley Quotes
Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
Quotes to Explore
-
I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
-
The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
-
Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
-
My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
-
Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
-
I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
-
I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
-
I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
-
We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
-
Focus on remedies, not faults.
-
The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
-
Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
-
And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
-
Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
-
All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
-
Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.
-
I am a big fan of movies that don't take themselves too seriously. You know you won't change the world, but have fun. Movies like 'Butch Cassidy' I enjoyed tremendously, but it didn't alter my opinion of the world.
-
I just wanted to experiment with the bass, and my main influence from Jaco Pastorius inspired me to write music in a certain way.
-
No well-run yacht basin in Southern waters is complete without at least two sun-burned, salt bleached-headed Esthonians who are waiting for a check from their last article. When it comes they will set sail to another yacht basin and write another saga.
-
The cool thing about directing is, whatever cool thing works in the scene, it's still making the episode be a great story, and everyone's working toward that goal, so it doesn't much matter where it's coming from.
-
A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
-
Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.
-
Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
