Coot Quotes

#1. It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn't get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.

Charlie Munger

#2. There's no pleasure in getting to be an old coot unless you have some fun along the way.

Gary D. Schmidt

#3. It's just really hard to remember your hometown isn't the only place in the world

Katie Cotugno

#4. I love wearing whatever is comfortable, and that could be something which was in trend years ago. So, I don't follow fashion.

Virat Kohli

#5. I'm coming, you impatient old coot! Keep your panties on!
-Skye yelling back to Hagan.

J.L. McCoy

#6. I could live here," Del said. "No, you couldn't. You'd turn into a coot and hang out at the general store, with your fly down," Lucas said. "You'd be known for goosing middle-aged women. You'd be the town embarrassment.

John Sandford

#7. They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

Katherine Dunn

#8. Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future.

Jimmy Bertrand

#9. George McGovern and his supporters committed what, in a two-party system, are capital crimes: they did not compromise, they took hard ideological positions, they alienated a large portion of their party's traditional supporters, and they lost - very, very badly.

Elliott Abrams

#10. I will not rule out anything. I don't speculate on my own future. I'll wait and see what happens.

Tyrone Willingham

#11. If you're such a genius, you wouldn't believe in magic."
"If you weren't such an old coot, you wouldn't need it.

Rosemary Clement-Moore

#12. Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it.

William Chillingworth

#13. I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#14. I think the important part is to not get caught up in worrying about whether something will stay, and instead enjoy it for the time it's here.

David Levithan

#15. Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you've become.

Karen Salmansohn

#16. Every day we hear about the dangers of cancer, heart disease and AIDS. But how many of us realize that, in much of the world, the act of giving life to a child is still the biggest killer of women of child-bearing age?

Liya Kebede

#17. All the same, it strikes me as unfair that I still have to defend myself against her moral judgements. My continuing need for her approbation is pathetic. Twice now I have stopped myself on the street to remonstrate with her, a crazy old coot talking to himself.

Mordecai Richler

#18. If you lose a couple of inches off your stomach, your business down there will look a lot longer.

Jack LaLanne

#19. Cool! Now I can steal some rich old coot's Ferrari and go fishing for marlin with the same piece of jewelry.

Jennifer Rardin

#20. Hardly anyone moved to Coot Lake unless they had some kind of tie to the community. It wasn't like Coot Lake was on the Most Scenic Small Towns list.

Anonymous

#21. Ya'll know what you need to do? Get together, make a We Are The World record.

Curtis Jackson

#22. If you were never encouraged to be yourself, you often try to blend in instead of standing out. It's a sense of "if only I was 'this,' then someone would love me.

David Mezzapelle

#23. My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you?

Alan Moore