Cressida Cowell Quotes
How can you make a fresh start in a New World when you are carrying with you on your boat all the same problems, the same frustrations and inequalities of the Old World?
Quotes to Explore
-
I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
-
I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
-
Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
-
My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
-
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
-
I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
-
Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
-
You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles.
-
I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
-
What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
-
As soon as there is life there is danger.
-
I live in one of Judy Garland's houses. As a fan, I never much liked Judy Garland, but living here, I feel like I have come to know her. People have given me a few of her possessions, and my neighbors have told me things that I wish I didn't know.
-
I'm a very low-key person, but for some reason, I like to act out.
-
It's really easy to end up on the 'Daily Mail' if you put yourself in situations where you'll end up on the 'Daily Mail,' and it's really easy to not if you don't do that.
-
I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What I should have done was say. 'Girls, it's really time for me to go on my own. I need to fulfill this dream of mine to have a solo album.' And I didn't know how to do that. I wanted to please them.
-
I think that we need to live our lives for the present... as if it is our one and only wild and wonderful life.
-
Now that my wine has been served in the White House, why not me? Who could talk to farmers better than I? Somebody even asked me the other day if I had anything in my platform about taxes. 'Hell yes,' I said. 'Great state. But I wouldn't want to live there.'
-
I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids.
-
Well, we are not doing that film actually. At least I am not at the moment, but we are making an effort to get it done; I don't know whether we'll get the financing for it. The old story we had it, it fell out of place and this and that.
-
I think I'm getting better at being verbal. I used to have a lot of problems with it. I had my own little demons that I was fighting, and I used the banjo as an escape.
-
Management problems are not respecters of the company organization, nor of the talents of the people appointed to solve them.
-
He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.
-
When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in an equivalent color range, and that may not be exactly, or far from exactly, like the model.
-
How can you make a fresh start in a New World when you are carrying with you on your boat all the same problems, the same frustrations and inequalities of the Old World?
