Mason Cooley Quotes

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

Mason Cooley

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• The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • World
  • Literature
  • Better

• I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Mind
  • Creative

• In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Suffering

• I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Military

• I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Work
  • Wall
  • Because

• Big business has no party and never shall have.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Business
  • Party
  • Big

• If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

  

  Oswald Spengler
  • Long
  • War
  • Soul

• With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • War
  • China
  • Global

• What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Christ
  • Really
  • Drinking

• Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking

• I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Think

• Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.

  

  Ida Pauline Rolf
  • Two
  • Unity
  • Sides

• During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Dress
  • Top
  • Chef

• Peacefulness to be found in writing. Why do I not write every day? Partly because I feel I ought to write well and know I can't. But that is not a good enough reason for not writing, if it gains me poise & peace.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Why

• We can search among the unconscious, emotion-laden learning rules for the kind of behavior most directly influenced by genetic evolution.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Learning
  • Search

• I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.

  

  John Hall
  • Hope
  • Political
  • Freedom

• Ideological purity does not now, nor has it ever, produced results.

  

  Bob Beckel

• Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Career

• A woman's pelvis is like an hourglass with the capacity to tell time. It both creates and shelters life. When the mother's diet is insufficient, nutrients are pulled from her own teeth and bone. Women are built to be selfless.

  

  Alyson Richman
  • Life
  • Women
  • Selfless

• I say that man without the grace of God nonetheless remains the general omnipotence of God who effects, and moves and impels all things in a necessary, infallible course; but the effect of man's being carried along is nothing-that is, avails nothing in God's sight, nor is reckoned to be anything but sin.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God

• I hospitalized a rock, killed a brick...I'm so bad I make medicine sick!

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Medicine
  • Killed
  • Hospitalized

• Wherever there was a group of people, and a treasure to be administered, there Peter knew was backbiting and scandal and intriguing and spying, and a chance for somebody whose brains were 'all there.'

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • People

• I'm not beholden to the public, and neither are the public beholden to me or my songs. I'm very much of a populist on those terms, I believe that the song is no longer mine anyway. I like to process the dispossession that happens when you play something live. I don't have a clue as to how these songs are going to plan out, whether they're going to be on a record. I don't know yet.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Play
  • Process
  • Records

• Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

  

  Mason Cooley