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

• 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

• One valuable lesson I learned is that buying cheap is very important. Buying without debt is also very important. Leverage is your enemy.

  

  David Lichtenstein
  • Important
  • Enemy

• I have the deepest respect for Eva Gabrielsson and all she has gone through, but I also know that I make maybe her sad, and I am sad about that, but I make so many other people happy.

  

  David Lagercrantz
  • People
  • She
  • Happy

• As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Like
  • Years
  • Look

• People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait.

  

  Bernie Glassman
  • Afraid
  • Move
  • Function

• The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • Today
  • Enemy
  • Nihilism

• The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people - and also so pleasurable - make them incredibly important inside of fiction. There's a chaos agent quality to them: You just don't know who's going to be there or why. You could run into an old enemy, an old friend, an old friend who's become an enemy.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • People
  • Important
  • Why

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

  

  Colin Cotterill
  • Enemy
  • Stick
  • Bullets