Colin Cotterill Quotes

A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.

Colin Cotterill

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• By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Positive

• I grew up with all kinds of people.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • People
  • Up
  • Kinds

• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Society
  • Rest

• As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Career
  • You

• One experiments and has to choose always the best results.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Best
  • Always
  • Choose

• A lot of my close friends are nothing to do with show business. But the people I've had relationships with, invariably, I've worked with. I think that's probably because I grew up in a family where we all worked together, so it's something I feel comfortable with.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• Sneakers are not my thing.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Thing
  • Sneakers

• I'm letting competition drive me, and when competition drives me, I don't think anyone can compete with me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Think
  • Me
  • Competition

• Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Work
  • Pain
  • Easy

• If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Care
  • Search

• Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Party

• A special button transfers him immediately to the first page of the index. Any given book of his library can thus be called up and consulted with far greater facility than if it were taken from a shelf. As he has several projection positions, he can leave one item in position while he calls up another.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Up
  • Book
  • Taken

• His eyes were rolling in their sockets, and his face had taken on the colour and expression of a devout tomato. I could see he loved like a thousand bricks.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Eyes
  • Taken

• Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown; O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Live
  • Die
  • Unknown

• She had married a vulgar man; and, though she had not become like the man, she had become vulgar.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • She

• Women are not automatically second-class citizens because they live in Islamic countries. We cannot judge the position of women in Islam aright if we take the most conservative Islamic states as representative of the whole.

  

  Prince Charles
  • Women
  • Live
  • Judge

• I wanted to be a vet before I got into comedy, but then once I found out how much gore goes into that job, I wanted nothing to do with it.

  

  Brian Posehn
  • Job
  • Comedy

• Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move.

  

  Edward Felten
  • Important
  • Picture

• I love Pixar films; I think they're the greatest filmmakers in the world. I love Disney films. 'Tangled,' was great. I loved 'How to Train Your Dragon,' the Dreamworks film. But it's not for me. I don't want to make a film for families; I want to make adult films.

  

  Bill Plympton
  • World
  • Great
  • Disney

• It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Dream
  • Start
  • Media

• I'm practical. I see something, and I do it.

  

  China Machado

• Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Economy
  • India
  • Taxation

• Moorcock's interlinked 'Eternal Champion' series is a constant source of enjoyment. Of its tragic hero incarnations, my favourite is 'Elric of Melnibone,' and the best book has to be 'Stormbringer.' And as for that other sword, Excalibur? Pah! Use it to spread your butter.

  

  Neal Asher
  • Book
  • Hero
  • Champion

• A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.

  

  Colin Cotterill
  • Hero
  • Faults
  • Omelet