Cosca's Quotes

#1. In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

Charles Ives

#2. It's hard to keep your balance standing tip-toe.

Laozi

#3. You are a gentleman, sir,' muttered Cosca. 'I am a murderer.' 'I see no reason why a man cannot be both . . .

Joe Abercrombie

#4. Conscience can be painful but so can the cock-rot. A grown-up should suffer his afflictions privately and not allow them to become an inconvenience for friends and colleagues.' - The Magnificent Nicomo Cosca

Joe Abercrombie

#5. Quinn's life rested on the fate of seven Warriors who were coming to free him.

Donna Grant

#6. Nothing is impossible to the mind. All it's guidance and power are available to you. When you fully realize that thought causes all, you will know there are never any limits that you yourself do not impose.

Uell Stanley Andersen

#7. Unsheathe your swords!' He considered that. 'Or cheaper weapons! Let us ... do some good!

Joe Abercrombie

#8. She saw the children. They have been given viruses to educate them. From three weeks old they could speak and do basic arithmetic. By ten, they had been made adult, forced like flowers to bloom early. But they were not flowers of love. They were flowers of work, to be put to work. There was no time.

Geoff Ryman

#9. Once I got both my hips replaced, I could start working out and going Pilates, and it's helped me be more active and youthful.

Jane Kaczmarek

#10. My name is Nicomo Cosca, famed solider of fortune, and I am here for dinner.

Joe Abercrombie

#11. Conscience and the cock-rot are hardly equivalent,' snapped Lorsen.
'Indeed,' said Cosca, significantly. 'The cock-rot is rarely fatal.

Joe Abercrombie

#12. People would see me on the street, shoving fistfuls of Teddy Grahams into my mouth on the way to the podiatrist, and they would think, "Boy, that lady sure does have her life together.

Scaachi Koul

#13. Her hair is troublesome and curly ... It falls in long, black strands, but each strand has a gentle, complicated undulation travelling through it, like a mild electric shock or a thrill, hat gives it a life of its own; it is visually analogous to a tremolo on a musical note.

Amit Chaudhuri

#14. Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.

Joe Abercrombie

#15. Be a good listener, so your spoken words may be appropriate

Emmanuel Aluko

#16. I wish I could go away somewhere but the only problem with that is that I'd have to go, too.

Carrie Fisher

#17. But deep in my heart I know that the most wretched among you have seen a divine face emerge from their darkness.

Albert Camus

#18. Want to shake the hand of a holy person? Then shake the hand of a helping hand!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#19. All technology does is give us back to ourselves. So to be anti-technology in a sense is to be anti-human.

Joshua Cohen

#20. severed heads,' Cosca was explaining, 'never go out of fashion. Used sparingly and with artistic, sensibility,They can make a point a great deal more eloquently then those still attached.

Joe Abercrombie