Coot's Quotes

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

Gary D. Schmidt

#2. I am positive of only a few things in life, and one is that if you want to have a decent middle and old age, you have to get exercise almost every day.

Anne Lamott

#3. When it comes to fighting you shouldn't be thinking at all. You have to clear your mind and trust yourself completely.

Gunnar Nelson

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

J.L. McCoy

#5. 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

#6. There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, even broken, some, irrevocably; it's the endings we're unprepared for.

Katherine Owen

#7. Life is a gift so rap up your troubles and throw them away.

Benny Bellamacina

#8. 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

#9. But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked.

Michael Behe

#10. One is forced to examine one's life when trapped in the wall by a Murphy bed.

Cheryl McKay

#11. 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

#12. To be able to see a magic, you need to have a mind that can detect that magic!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. 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

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

Jennifer Rardin

#15. Light rails are too bus-like to impress most commuters, too squished and close to the ground. Monorails, by contrast, strike a chord with travelers. There's something about the sleek designs, the pillowy rides, and the panoramic views that just enchants.

Brendan I. Koerner

#16. 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

#17. 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