Coped Crown Quotes

#1. Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.

Fernando Pessoa

#2. In the early 1990s, Target adopted some of Walt Disney's staff training and customer service initiatives. It has since developed a variety of methods - from hiring to coaching to grading performance - to ensure "team members" embody the motto "fast, fun and friendly." (See Chapter 5.)

Laura Rowley

#3. The whole of life, in all its complexity and beauty, has been etched into the gold of words.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#4. Don't you ever think,' he asked cautiously, 'that it would be better to be a bully than to be bullied? At least that way no one could ever hurt you.'

Katarina turned to him in amazement. 'No,' she said definitively, shaking her head. 'No Pieter, I never think that, not for a moment.

John Boyne

#5. His knuckles brushed against her skin and lightning cracked through him, left him paralyzed, rooted to the earth. His heart should not be making that sound.

Leigh Bardugo

#6. Never read too much into other people's actions - most of the time it's got nothing to do with you anyway.

Stephanie Taylor

#7. I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

Elizabeth Moon

#8. Grand telegraphic discovery today ... Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish ... the "timbre" of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.

Alexander Graham Bell

#9. When there is propaganda, we are no longer able to evaluate certain questions, or even to discuss them

Jacques Ellul

#10. He's a young man, my own age or a little older, which is young for a man although not for a woman, as at my age a woman is an old maid but a man is not an old bachelor until he's fifty, and even then there's still hope for the ladies, as Mary Whitney used to say.

Margaret Atwood

#11. The ways of the Lord are unsearchable

Sunday Adelaja

#12. Sometimes in life, you have to make things happen. That you can change your life if you're willing to let go of the old and actively look for the new. That even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Jane Green

#13. He knows all the golf lingo. You know? You hit your ball, he's like "there's a golf shot. That's a golf shot." Well of course it's a golf shot; I just hit a golf ball. You don't see Gretzky skating around going "there's a hockey shot, that's a hockey shot."

Bill Engvall

#14. Margaret used to say that there were two kinds of women: those with clear edges to them, and those who implied mystery.

Julian Barnes

#15. She's following me.
I can just feel her breathing shadow pressed up against my back.

Lisa M. Cronkhite