Colin Cotterill Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
-
Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.
-
You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
-
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
-
In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
-
I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.
-
Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
-
George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.
-
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
-
The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
-
Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
-
Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
-
Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.
-
All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.
-
The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
-
Before I had Toma, I was one of those people who had no interest in other people's kids. I was. 'Don't hand me that baby!'
-
I'm not comically oriented. I get angry and I start complaining and then people start laughing. I don't even want them to laugh half the time.
-
People who like hard-hitting wrestling and action, they'll like me.
-
I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better.
-
There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
-
We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
-
There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.
-
There was nothing fake or added about him. He was all himself.
