Cosimo Quotes

#1. Cosimo stretched out his arms. 'I came up here before you, my lords, and here I will stay afterwards too!'
-'You want to withdraw!' cried El Conde.
-'No, to resist,' replied the Baron.

Italo Calvino

#2. I think it might be nice if there was a Cosimo de' Medici around today, offering commissions to the poor, but talented artists.

Mary Pope Osborne

#3. Cosimo did not yet know love, and what is any experience without that? What point is there in risking life, when the real flavor of life is as yet unknown?

Italo Calvino

#4. Her breast was young, the nipples rosy. Cosimo just grazed it with his lips, before Viola slid away over the branches as if she were flying, with him clambering after her, and that skirt of hers always in his face

Italo Calvino

#5. Then again, what Cosimo had said was right: he was nothing but an overworked drone in a cube farm, a minor cog in the dreary machinery of a third-rate mortgage mill, overlooked, unloved, a sidelined player in the big game,

Stephen R. Lawhead

#6. Hadn't retired reporter Stan warned him of how protective Cosimo was of his granddaughters? What if the Carusos had discovered his identity and wanted to rub him out as they'd rubbed out his father?
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and
at the hour of our death.

Christie Ridgway

#7. That wish to enter into an elusive element which had urged Cosimo into the trees, was still working now inside him unsatisfied, making him long for a more intimate link, a relationship which would bind him to each leaf and twig and feather and flutter.

Italo Calvino

#8. I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Eminem

#9. I don't like tracking and over dubbing and all that. I love live recording where everybody is playing. I, I'm convinced it's better.

Cosimo Matassa

#10. You have to have a serious streak in you, or you can't see the funny side of the other fellow.

Will Rogers

#11. Writing is a journey of discovery because until you start, you never know what will happen, and you can be surprised by what you do - expect the unexpected!

Mini Grey

#12. But if Smith was right, and gold and silver became money through the natural workings of the market completely independently of governments, then wouldn't the obvious thing be to just grab control of the gold and silver mines?

David Graeber

#13. I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

#14. Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest ... even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner.

Jane Bryant Quinn

#15. Rock and roll was a good way to, to first recognize the, the confluence of white artists with it but also to kind of pretty it up a little bit, clean it up a little bit, make it more acceptable to, to people.

Cosimo Matassa

#16. Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

James Dyson

#17. A lot of good musicians made me look good.

Cosimo Matassa

#18. I can't trust anyone who won't take real cream, or real sugar.

Menna Van Praag

#19. Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there for their honesty and good faith?

Emma Goldman

#20. Wow, son. You're mad retarded."
David whipped his head around and pinned my brother with a lethal glare. "Don't say that word."
"Sorry." Raymond kept staring at me. "You're mad special ed."
David scoffed, and I burst out laughing.

Santino Hassell

#21. I always felt that's why people buy records anyhow is because they get that vicarious excitement and thrill that they don't get unless they buy your record.

Cosimo Matassa

#22. We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

Ovid

#23. I'm one of the old crabby types and younger people are perfectly happy with everything that goes on.

Cosimo Matassa

#24. I don't want everyone to like me, and I don't choose who likes me. You have to give them the choice, give them the option.

Jean Dujardin

#25. If anybody had a sense of history, it wasn't me, I'll tell you that. I, I was just enjoying life and, and making a living and, and, you know, listening to all this good music. No, there was never in my mind any kind of sense of history, nothing.

Cosimo Matassa

#26. My fellow citizens, our nation is poised for greatness. We must do what we know is right, and do it with all our might. Let history say of us: "These were golden years - when the American Revolution was reborn, when freedom gained new life, and America reached for her best."

Ronald Reagan