Cooley High Quotes

#1. Seems like everybody has seen 'Cooley High.' That's what put me on the map. Garrett Morris and I go way back, even before the movie. Great guy. We've done theater and stage plays together, Lincoln Center and all kinds of things.

Glynn Turman

#2. I can't explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facilities. This is something I rarely encountered during 38 years in uniform. And so I will not defend it because it is indefensible. But I can take responsibility for it and I do.

Eric Shinseki

#3. In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.

Nicholas Sparks

#4. Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.

Mason Cooley

#5. We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. I like it when things catch fire and explode, which means I do not have your best interests in mind.

Randall Munroe

#8. Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating.

Mason Cooley

#9. If ethics is not the engine of success, in the train of growth, it sure is a guard, with a flag, which may be green, or at times red

Priyavrat Thareja

#10. A massive power outage in Washington, D.C., today affected a number of federal buildings, including the White House. When asked when they could restore power to the White House, officials said, '2016?'

Jimmy Fallon

#11. Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.

Mason Cooley

#12. It's easy for you to speak of love when you've built walls high enough around your heart that you forget what true love is. Sacrifice. Shelter. Loyalty.

Randi Cooley Wilson

#13. To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'

Francis Ford Coppola

#14. Each of us has been falling apart since day one, Chase. We just have to find a way to fall apart together.

Brian K. Vaughan

#15. Americans thrive on mobility and feel shrunken in spirit when they do not have it.(Odd Thomas)

Dean Koontz

#16. Sometimes the best moment to sing a victory song is in the middle of your battle.

Jeremy Riddle

#17. Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything.

Sivananda