Cognoscenti 55 Quotes

#1. I look to see what things I enjoy doing and just try to figure out how to spend my time doing things that I enjoy.

Paul Buchheit

#2. Good stuff doesn't just happen. You have to fight for it.

D.J. MacHale

#3. But I can't pretend I don't know how little the goodwill of even the best surgeon can accomplish against the workings of fate. A man's hands are rooted firmly in the earth, Angela. God, if he exists, is behind our backs.

Margaret Mazzantini

#4. I'll always write picture books - it's just what I do. I'd even do it if I wasn't being paid.

Debi Gliori

#5. I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,
a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless.

Charlotte Bronte

#6. I loved the 'Die Hard' films growing up and the 'Taken' movies. They're so entertaining, and I enjoy being on the edge of my seat.

Michelle Dockery

#7. highway after the boy.

Flannery O'Connor

#8. Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

Samuel Johnson

#9. Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

T. S. Eliot

#10. I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.

Zac Goldsmith

#11. Unlimited enmity of the Albanian people against Serbia is the foremost real result of the Albanian policies of the Serbian government. The second and more dangerous result is the strengthening of two big powers in Albania, which have the greatest interests in the Balkans.

Dimitrije Tucovic