Rich Cohen Quotes

Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in.

Rich Cohen

• Writing
• Beginning
• Impossible
• Nonfiction

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.

  

  Flume
  • Life
  • Up
  • Job

• Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?

  

  C. V. Raman
  • World
  • Work
  • Friend

• I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Night
  • Food

• 'Vanity' means worthlessness.

  

  Vanity
  • Means
  • Vanity
  • Worthlessness

• Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Time
  • Present

• Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Government
  • End
  • Taxes

• There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • World
  • Me
  • Opportunities

• I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Life
  • Great
  • Child

• I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • World
  • Art
  • Rest

• He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Good
  • Help
  • Wisdom

• You know how macho boys get when they're all together? Well, the set of 'Desperado' was like that. They were all trying to put me down, saying, 'Bring on the stuntwoman, Salma can't do that.' But I did everything.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Know

• I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Age
  • Young
  • Stage

• I range the fields with pensive tread, And pace the hollow rooms; And feel companion of the dead I'm living in the tombs.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Feel
  • Living
  • Dead

• Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital, in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit.

  

  Karl Marx

• Don't you think this outlaw bit has done got out of hand?What started out to be a joke, the law don't understand.Was it singing through my nose that got me busted by the man?Maybe this here outlaw bit has done got out of hand.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Done
  • Law
  • Hand

• I bring my bike to work, and I make laps around our parking lot on my lunch break.

  

  Angela Kinsey
  • Work
  • Bike

• Someone once described me as the Zelig of comedy, and I think I know what he means.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Comedy

• As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites.

  

  Kadir Nelson
  • Men
  • Character
  • Book

• It can be stressful if I wrote something that I realize doesn't sound right. I can write something at home and be like, "Great. Nailed it." Then I'm like, "No one should have to say those words. That doesn't make any sense." It's a lot of scrambling.

  

  Katie Dippold
  • Writing
  • Home
  • Realizing

• I love that you work out relationships with people as you're filming just to get something real to play on screen.

  

  Lee Pace
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and the key to it, it will be possible to go on for ever inventing plants and know that their existence is logical; that is to say, if they do not actually exist, they could, for they are not the shadowy phantoms of a vain imagination, but possess an inner necessity and truth. The same law will be applicable to all other living organisms.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Keys

• I don't feel that I decided deliberately I'm going to write something and have it stand alone. Somewhere by the end I think it would probably revert to imagery.

  

  Raymond Pettibon Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Ends

• Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in.

  

  Rich Cohen
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Impossible