Adam Cohen Quotes
One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.
Quotes to Explore
-
Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
-
Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.
-
You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
-
The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
-
I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
-
I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
-
It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
-
I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
-
Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
-
The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
-
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
-
I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
-
The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
-
I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
-
A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
-
The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
-
Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
-
I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
-
Every quarterback feels like he has something to prove.
-
This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
-
At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave you alone. People have less time just to drop into an art gallery.
-
We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.
-
As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.
-
One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.
