Coucy's Quotes

#1. At Coucy's level, men and women hawked and hunted and carried a favorite falcon, hooded, on the wrist wherever they went, indoors or out - to church, to the assizes, to meals. On occasion, huge pastries were served from which live birds were released to be caught by hawks unleashed in the banquet

Barbara W. Tuchman

#2. Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.

Bela Fleck

#3. All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

Spike Lee

#4. I never - when I go into a project, I don't think too much about if there's a lot of other sci-fi books out there or horror books or whatever. I just tell the stories I want to tell, and I think that is evident on the page.

Jeff Lemire

#5. If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.

Clare Boothe Luce

#6. The fief of Coucy from the Church; it was now held directly of the King, and its seigneur paid homage only to the King's person.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#7. In addition to grand estate, Coucy clearly possessed a personal power of attraction and a faculty for not making enemies.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#8. She struggled not to show this. Already, that dream on the grass had faded in her memory. It was as if she'd worn it out by thinking too much about it. But in the moment, it had felt so real. Kestrel couldn't quite believe that it hadn't been.

Marie Rutkoski

#9. Your little kindness made the whole world my enemy, but I am not scared.

M.F. Moonzajer

#10. For power, you know, is a fretful thing, and hath its wings always spread for flight.

Lew Wallace

#11. To paraphrase Paul from the New Testament, he has a great soliloquy about love, where he's basically saying, if I've figured out the secrets of the universe but I don't have love, figuring out the secrets of universe means nothing.

Moby

#12. From the three, you then use one to make eight ones. You add those ones to the three, and you get one-three base eight, or, in other words, In base ten you have eleven, and you take away seven. And seven from eleven is four. Now go back to the sixty-fours, you're left with two.

Tom Lehrer

#13. The more steps you take towards the end, the fewer steps you have to take towards the end!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#14. A Cue from Nature
Run outside during a thunderstorm
That downpour, that conquered hesitation, that exhilaration
That's what unlonely is like

David Levithan

#15. As soon as I'm finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, "Well, I did another book."

Daniel Clowes