Coglianese Chicago Quotes

#1. If it's a choice between a difficult truth and a simple lie, people will take the lie every time. Even if it kills them.

Paul Murray

#2. Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.

Benjamin Franklin Wade

#3. Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say."
This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again.
"Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar.

Lewis Carroll

#4. Anyone who starts badmouthing Latino immigrants is not only a racist but ignorant. You need to refer them to what was written about the Irish, the Jews, the Italians, any group you want.

James Gray

#5. The past, as you suggest, is absolutely present at all times and the present is born from the past. I wouldn't want to suggest that the past determines the present.

Chang-rae Lee

#6. Significant things often happen when you are present. Things come to you, and then you respond to what is required. The response very often comes without a premeditated idea of what you want. It is simply a response to the situation.

Eckhart Tolle

#7. Knowledge is the most beautiful manifestation of the human mind.

Eraldo Banovac

#8. I slept all day, face down in the pillow, a comfortable dead-man's float only remotely disturbed by a chill undertow of reality - talk, footsteps, slamming doors - which threaded fitfully through the dark, blood-warm waters of dream.

Donna Tartt

#9. So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.

Imran Khan

#10. A chain of follies had put him there: Call's abrupt decision to become a cattleman and his own decision, equally abrupt, to try and rescue a girl foolish enough to be taken in by Jake Spoon. None of it was sensible, yet he had to admit there was something about such follies that he liked.

Larry McMurtry

#11. 'Flappy Bird' was one of those phenomena. If we could all build one now, we would. Probably a bunch of us are trying. Those kinds of games are interesting. Rumor has it he was making $50,000 a day just from advertising, which is great, especially given the cost of living in Vietnam.

Chris DeWolfe