Cool Factor Quotes

#1. Do not make the writer stand behind a podium. Anything but. A podium reeks of the lecture hall. A music stand, on the other hand, is nicely minimal and lends the writer - who usually needs all the help s/he can get - a musician's second-hand cool-factor.

Lynn Coady

#2. I have other fish to fry.

Miguel De Cervantes

#3. I'm sorry, Silvan. I didn't mean to wake you."
"I wouldn't have missed seeing my son getting barricaded in the privy by a wee lass for anything. Bonny fortune with your plan, m'dear.

Karen Marie Moning

#4. It ain't only the bad ones, nor yet the dumb ones that gets sucked under.

James Baldwin

#5. The church's main task is to fuel having a fulfilled destiny

Sunday Adelaja

#6. Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#7. They that are booted are not alwaies ready.

George Herbert

#8. We never believe we're beautiful, no matter how many times we hear it. We never believe it until someone says it in the right way.

Francine Prose

#9. Writing is like this
you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there under the black water, they work the grappling hooks back and forth.

Paul Engle

#10. I am unbelievably nervous.
It is most unlike me.
This girl is really messing with my mojo.

Siobhan Davis

#11. Have the courage to live... Anyone can die.

Bailey Vincent

#12. She and I are two unhappy ones who keep together and carry our burdens together, and in this way unhappiness is changed to joy, and the unbearable becomes bearable.

Vincent Van Gogh

#13. The older he got, the less he believed and then the less he believed the more capable he was of believing. "Such a cool paradox." He said.

Jill McCorkle

#14. The problem with open-mindedness is that it can become empty-mindedness

Christopher Hitchens

#15. Let's hear it for spontaneous mutation, folks!

James Patterson

#16. He felt guilty about that, even though he knew he had done nothing he should feel guilty about.

Kurt Vonnegut

#17. This watching through cool intent eyes and delicately adjusting one factor or another till a man's fundamental instinct for self-preservation cracks, is savagery in its most pure, most polished and most highly evolved form.

Tana French