Coakley Quotes

#1. First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

Barbara Walters

#2. I don't ever remember seeing a base runner who was all the way to third base run back across the mound. It was kind of a respectful thing.

Goose Gossage

#3. My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

Laura Hillenbrand

#4. I will never again look at the homeless people the way I did before entering Bowery Mission.

Stevan V. Nikolic

#5. You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.

Chuck Close

#6. We live between the two great silences: the silence that existed before the world began, and the silence that waits for us at the end of all things.

Lena Coakley

#7. She reminded him of a snowcat - a beautiful, dangerous thing from a cold, high place

Lena Coakley

#8. An assassin's first murder is himself. He kills the man he was.

Lena Coakley

#9. The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant.

G.K. Chesterton

#10. Every once in a while it's as if my mind turns a corner, and then I can see forever. I love that feeling.

Lena Coakley

#11. He taught me that the whole world was a holy place. That's why he loved our old farm, loved the dirt under his feet. Everything was magic to him.

Lena Coakley

#12. If I am to have a life of sorrows, I will not let them conquer me.

Lena Coakley

#13. Why did knowing grief himself not make him better at knowing how to help?

Lena Coakley

#14. Perhaps he anticipated our anticipation of his anticipation . . .

Tarun Shanker

#15. there is no shortage of reading material in this house. Charlotte is an excellent writer, but Mr. Shakespeare is better, and if it's Branwell's wickedness you like, Papa says we may read Lord Byron in moderation." Emily

Lena Coakley

#16. They were so beautiful in their opposition - like two sides of a coin.
They were ... balance.

Lena Coakley

#17. Maria raised herself with difficulty. "Hush. I'm getting up. See?" She sat perched on the edge of the bed, breathing heavily. "And you will have my porridge thus morning. If you share it with Emil.

Lena Coakley

#18. I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.

Carla Bley

#19. You can't see the world from somebody else's point of view and not be changed.

Lena Coakley

#20. And if you believe that we really have free will, then you know that God can't really control us. And since God can't control us, all God does is watch and change channels when He gets bored.

Chuck Palahniuk

#21. The present catches up to the future with alarming speed - I had forgotten that.

Lena Coakley

#22. For the first time he understood what he had always been taught: The world was made of music.

Lena Coakley

#23. Rogue turned to her, his face no longer quite so hard. A curl of smoke rose from the pistol in his hand. Rotten apples fell from the tree, splatting at her feet. "Poor little girlie," he said, and there did seem to be potty in his voice. "I told you you'd get your fingers bit.

Lena Coakley

#24. Grief is her hobby. She's made a study of it

Lena Coakley

#25. It was as if the girl were a puzzle that his mind was trying to solve.

Lena Coakley

#26. The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.

P. J. O'Rourke

#27. The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on a page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.

Neil Postman

#28. Why did people shrink away from winter, he wondered, safe in their blankets, hiding by their fires?
If they knew how beautiful winter really was, they would walk out naked into the snow, walk and walk, until their frozen hearts split open with joy.

Lena Coakley

#29. We are so isolated here in Haworth, with no one of our own age to befriend, and the men and women of Verdopolis are real, in a way. It wouldn't seem strange to me if ... Someone ... Might even fall in love with one of them.

Lena Coakley

#30. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine beings.

Carl Sagan