Cottony Quotes

#1. By morning I was worn out. My limbs felt heavy as wood, my head cottony. I might've felt better if I hadn't slept at all.

Ransom Riggs

#2. Can we just forget that ever happened?"
His smile is devilish. "Not on your life.

M. Leighton

#3. Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came.

Freeman Dyson

#4. Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.

Daryl Hannah

#5. Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

Karl Kraus

#6. [But] I have come across anything so painfully beautiful as that kiss. I wish it was something I could save and share with the world so I could tell the universe: this is what it's like; this is how it feels when you fall.

Kiera Cass

#7. Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From low hung branches; little space they stop; But sip, and twitter, and their feathers sleek; Then off at once, as in a wanton freak: Or perhaps, to show their black, and golden wings Pausing upon their yellow flutterings.

John Keats

#8. As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone .

Karl Marx

#9. You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake.

Orson Scott Card

#10. Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption.

Clay Shirky

#11. When you are following dharma, you will be happy, at peace, still inside. There will be a sense of purpose to your life. Difficulties will not seem unconquerable.

Frederick Lenz

#12. There is something above this rage, aggression.

Deyth Banger

#13. What is called modern today, tomorrow will be history. What ever you allow to display, don't make of it a mystery.

A. Saleh

#14. I think that my first book - I was trying to write the kind of book I would have loved as a kid. So it's sort of, like, a book inspired by my childhood reading and the passion that I felt about reading when I was a kid.

Rebecca Stead

#15. If your work is so smart that only smart people get it, it's not that smart.

Chris Rock

#16. There's all sorts of ways to live, Chip. Some of them you give a lot. Some of them you take a lot. Art, jazz, it was a kind of taking. You take from the audience, you take from yourself.

Esi Edugyan