Colin Cotterill Quotes

“Sarcasm,” he said, “is like throwing a stick at your enemy when you’ve run out of bullets.” Siri

Colin Cotterill

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• Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Lost
  • Never
  • Idea

• It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Clinton
  • Retire

• What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.

  

  Ursus Wehrli
  • Work
  • Art
  • Change

• Those who go along get along.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Get
  • Go
  • Along

• Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Music
  • Country
  • Art

• He was not only a bore; he bored for England.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Bored
  • England
  • Only

• When I was a Laker Girl, I only danced for three months. We did not get paid that much money, and I was working two jobs at the time. I thought that it would be a little more fun, but it was quite stressful. It's all about your weight, your hair, having the right hair extensions, what to wear, the kind of shoes you wore.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Time
  • Money
  • Fun

• I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • People
  • Fear
  • Sometimes

• A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Knew
  • Clown
  • Giant

• Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Great

• Why is it that countries which we call strong' are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard? Why is it, why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so hard?

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Why
  • Strong
  • Giving

• The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

  

  Vanity
  • Pain

• Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Power
  • Brain

• I just don't like talking about my relationships or anything like that, in any reference.

  

  Emma Roberts

• There's the pressure of being a No. 1 on the call sheet, being a lead actor. There's almost this feeling like being captain of the team. You want to put a bit of energy into actually setting a good example.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Energy

• I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday.

  

  Nelson DeMille

• There's a misunderstanding that I've always tried to address straight on when this question comes up, which is that a 'Half-Life' story can somehow exist outside of a game. It can't. The story is created through the process of trying to figure out how to best use the features of the engine within the interesting set of constraints it poses.

  

  Marc Laidlaw
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• Once I began to hear and pay attention to my fledgling ideas, the biggest hurdle was to learn how to respect them. That was hard, because the real way to respect an idea is to invest the attention and work needed to develop it.

  

  Janet Echelman
  • Work
  • Real
  • Respect

• I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

  

  Andrew Scott
  • Important

• Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.

  

  Fulton Oursler
  • Future
  • Past
  • Fear

• Well done, now give it back to them.

  

  David Ben-Gurion
  • Done

• Every man, noble and simple alike, should hold his land as a pledge of god behaviour. His duties, to King, lord, and neighbour, should be settled once and for all; and, if he failed in them, he should be turned out of his home and left to starve. It was a drastic scheme; but a conqueror holding a conquered country by the force of the sword cannot afford to be squeamish.

  

  Edward Jenks
  • King
  • Force
  • Failed

• Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.

  

  Adolf Galland
  • Time
  • Opinion
  • Enemy

• “Sarcasm,” he said, “is like throwing a stick at your enemy when you’ve run out of bullets.” Siri

  

  Colin Cotterill
  • Enemy
  • Stick
  • Bullets