Cockles Of The Heart Quotes

#1. Nothing warms the cockles of the heart more than the smug self-satisfaction of being right.

Val McDermid

#2. Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.

Jonathan Swift

#3. I want to be able to twitch my nose like that so I can clean my house! I have four children. I have been praying for that gift, but I haven't gotten it yet.

Silver RavenWolf

#4. Small does of advertising result in nothing, obviously. It's like giving a sick person half the medicine he needs. It just causes more suffering. Give the whole dose, and the cure will be certain and decisive.

P.T. Barnum

#5. I know things have been hard for you. I'm not saying that's an excuse. There's never an excuse for doing the wrong thing, but sometimes people need a little more support if they've been through some tough times.

Cecily Anne Paterson

#6. I have very vivid dreams - almost always action-adventure. I'm often on the run. I've always had dreams. When I was little, I'd go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies.

Sarah Silverman

#7. Hayduke smelled something foul in all this. A smoldering bitterness warmed his heart and nerves; the slow fires of anger kept his cockles warm, his hackles rising. Hayduke burned. And he was not a patient man.

Edward Abbey

#8. I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.

Charles Kuralt

#9. I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.

Ben Nicholson

#10. We must do what we can to reduce, not increase, tensions. We must do what we can to present only the facts as we know them, not as we imagine them to be. We must learn to live with crisis in an age which calls for cool heads and accurate appraisals.

Percy Spender

#11. Lyndon B. Johnson thought he'd have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas - for four Christmases in a row (he never shifted course, and lost his presidency for it).

Rick Perlstein

#12. I know I'm doing something wrong and I feel guilty but neither of those things matter enough to make me stop

Abbi Glines

#13. The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

Jane Austen

#14. Not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase.

Grover Norquist

#15. She won't ask if I'm okay because she'll already know that for us Are you okay? is an impossible question.

Nina LaCour

#16. If strangers see you behaving like lunatics, it doesn't matter, because they don't know who you are. And if your friends see you behaving like lunatics, it doesn't matter, because they know who you are.

D.E. Stevenson

#17. Why do we say 'the cockles of your heart'?" David said. "Nothing to do with whelks, I suppose.

Philip Hensher

#18. Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please.

Robert Chambers

#19. I said, yet again, for Germany, Europe is not only indispensable, it is part and parcel of our identity. We've always said German unity, European unity and integration, that's two parts of one and the same coin. But we want, obviously, to boost our competitiveness.

Angela Merkel

#20. It warms the cockles of my heart. Words chosen carefully.

Misha Collins

#21. If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.

Kate Christensen