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?

Cressida Cowell

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• 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.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Love
  • Nice

• I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Think
  • Authority
  • Brains

• Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • You
  • Reverence

• 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.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Friends
  • Reading

• Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Love
  • Friendship
  • For Her

• I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Training
  • Jew

• 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.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Music
  • Power
  • Want

• Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Nothing

• You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Lead

• I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Time
  • Think
  • Better

• 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.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Creation
  • Research
  • Farming

• As soon as there is life there is danger.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Danger
  • Soon

• 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.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• I'm a very low-key person, but for some reason, I like to act out.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Reason
  • Like
  • Act

• 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.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • End
  • Yourself

• 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.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Working

• I think that we need to live our lives for the present... as if it is our one and only wild and wonderful life.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Life
  • Live
  • Think

• 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.'

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Great
  • Live
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • Women
  • Kids

• My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office.

  

  Ralph Allen
  • Father
  • Knowledge
  • Care

• Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Talking
  • Please

• You’re not buying news when you buy The New York Times. You’re buying judgment.

  

  Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
  • Judgment
  • News
  • Buying

• [Writing] is edit, edit, edit. It's almost like getting a boat ready to go to sea. You've still got a countless number of things left to fix, but you've just got to go, "O.K., everybody get on the boat. We're going, ready or not."

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Writing
  • Sea
  • Numbers

• 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?

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Problems
  • Boat
  • New World