Coaxingly Quotes

#1. Your childhood, said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn't chosen to retail at drink parties.
Her words lulled him. The past, even a bitter past, is usually more pungent than the present, or at least better organized in the mind.

Gregory Maguire

#2. I'll be glad to get out on the water again, and gladder still to see Divvytown. I knew it was my home port that first time I saw it.'
'The pirate town? Sa save us all. Does someone wait for you, dearie?' Ophelia asked.
Jek laughed aloud. 'They all wait for me. They just don't know it yet.

Robin Hobb

#3. The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.

William Kingdon Clifford

#4. Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.

Terry Eagleton

#5. One of the missions of Google[x] is to use technology to get technology out of the way

Astro Teller

#6. How many times have you said to yourself, at least I have, "Ahh ... I don't care, I don't really want to live anymore", without even thinking about the meaning of it.

Paulo Coelho

#7. There are just things you can explore in a movie that you can't in 22 minutes with a laugh track.

Josh Radnor

#8. I went to one doctor who told me I wasn't exercising enough. I was so exhausted, I couldn't raise my arm. When this doctor called it psychosomatic, I was enraged. To think the constant sore throat and swollen glands were all in my head was infuriating.

Alana Stewart

#9. Memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.

Harriet Doerr

#10. Why couldn't I just have him for everyday life and Drew at bedtime?

Jettie Woodruff

#11. Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms.

John Milton

#12. What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.

Milan Kundera

#13. Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism is sanity. Religion is medieval. Atheism is modern.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#14. Most often a woman marries a man that she hopes to make perfect and a man marries his perfect woman.

Amit Pandey

#15. I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.

Caio Fonseca

#16. The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

Jawaharlal Nehru