Top 41 Cowan Quotes
#1. Tommy and Adam Cowan, over at Markdale, are twins; and they're both cross-eyed. So I s'posed that was what being twins meant.
L.M. Montgomery
#2. We shouldn't let the Republicans off the hook. Theodore Roosevelt, we learned from Jeff Cowan's new book, was just as bad as certainly [Louis] Brandeis was, or many Democrats were on the question of segregation.
Jeffrey Rosen
#3. Cowan son of Branieucc, you're the only one of my people that I know for sure still lives.
Sandi Layne
#4. Go back to bed, Cowan. I want no promises from you.
Sandi Layne
#5. I do revel slightly in the fact that I am what I am - an English, middle-class, public-school-educated bloke. There is a reputation with that of being slightly stiff, but whoever gets to know me will see some other element - whether it be vulnerable or silly or camp.
Elliot Cowan
#6. Positive reviews are energizing. Negative reviews are teaching moments and the writer must pay attention, gleaning what is helpful and ignoring the personal jabs.
Liz Cowan
#7. Even though momentarily I thought about being a doctor, I was always involved in theatre and did a drama degree. I just didn't have the guts to go, 'Yes, I'm going to be an actor,' until I was probably 21.
Elliot Cowan
#9. I've done some bits of shockingly bad TV that have never been shown, or at least I hope they've never been shown ... Please don't dig them out!
Elliot Cowan
#10. In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.
George Cowan
#11. Plant spirit medicine is the shaman's way with plants. It recognizes that plants have spirit and that spirit is the strongest medicine. Spirit can heal the deepest reaches of the heart and soul.
Elliot Cowan
#12. When he [Franklin Roosevelt] ultimately does not get the Republican Party nomination and decides to start his new Bull Moose Party, he does, for the first time, let black delegates be part of the party from elsewhere in the country.
Geoffrey Cowan
#13. My story isn't beautiful or tragic. It's just another story about a cursed girl living a shitty life.
Lesley Anne Cowan
#14. The reverse is a system in which you basically let people who were leaders in one way or another - people sometimes decried as party bosses, people who are part of special interests make the decision. And I think that's a worse system than the one we have.
Geoffrey Cowan
#15. As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.
Elliot Cowan
#16. Characters in TV and theatre tend to experience a lot of conflict, so I push myself through sport to physical and emotional levels that hurt so I've some other reference for extreme experience that isn't me shouting at my girlfriend or my mum. It's a way of controlling the uncontrollable.
Elliot Cowan
#17. What we consider typical of the male is a question I ask myself quite often - it's relevant to my life as an actor and as a man.
Elliot Cowan
#18. Mystical insight and enlightenment occur when the veil between the worlds is lifted, the worlds are bridged, the gap closes, and we cross over.
Tom Cowan
#19. When reading, one needs to remember that poets and philosophers are not prescribing courses of action but exploring aspects of existence.
Louise Cowan
#20. The different human peoples did not evolve out of a common ancestor; they were each born out of the womb of their own homeland. We appeared in different parts of the world at the same time. Each group was as much a part of their environment as the other animals and plants of the region.
Eliot Cowan
#21. People often ask why I write romance. It's because I believe in heroes and heroines who, after fighting their way through often-formidable obstacles, are rewarded with a happy ending. When the story's over, their future is just beginning and I really like that idea.
Debra Cowan
#22. I think Roosevelt proves himself to be the ultimate political force in this book. He really wasn't for primaries until he realized it was the only way in which he could challenge a sitting president then it becomes his crusade, is to create the primaries and to call for the people to rule.
Geoffrey Cowan
#24. My heart is a schizophrenic. One sentence is about how I hate him. The next is about how much I love him. It goes on like that, back and forth, pacing.
Lesley Anne Cowan
#25. FOR THAT WHICH BEFALLETH THE SONS OF MEN BEFALLETH BEASTS; AS THE ONE DIETH, SO DIETH THE OTHER; YEA, THEY ALL HAVE ONE BREATH; SO THAT A MAN HATH NO PREEMINENCE ABOVE A BEAST: FOR ALL IS VANITY. FOR
Robert Cowan
#27. There is nothing safer than flying - it's crashing that is dangerous.
Theo Cowan
#28. I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.
Elliot Cowan
#29. Spirituality is natural, personal, and rooted in direct experience. There is no such thing as secondhand spirituality. No one else's spirituality can serve as substitute for your own.
David Cowan
#30. I'm still very much about being an actor. That's why I'm not married with kids.
Elliot Cowan
#31. When NBC News first assigned me to the Barack Obama campaign, I must confess my knees quaked a bit ... I wondered if I was up to the job. I wondered if I could do the campaign justice.
Lee Cowan
#32. You can't just stop loving someone just like that, you know. You can't just turn it off.
Lesley Anne Cowan
#33. The truth was that the sky didn't discriminate. It covered all of them in this graceful, inexplicable splendor. No matter what they had done.
Laura K. Cowan
#34. Reagan, people claimed, was too old to run for president and to be elected. But he proved himself such a vigorous campaigner in the primary system that he overcame those beliefs.
Geoffrey Cowan
#35. And of course, in the case of Barack Obama, had he not won primaries - and particularly the heavily important caucus in Iowa - if the public hadn't shown that they were prepared to vote for a black president, we wouldn't have one today.
Geoffrey Cowan
#36. At a party in L.A., I met this middle-aged gentleman who I was talking to for ages when I asked, 'So, what do you do?' Turns out I was speaking to legendary music producer Quincy Jones, who worked on Michael Jackson's hits. And there was little old me rattling on - I was so embarrassed.
Elliot Cowan
#37. There's no stopping the soul that radiates out and around us, any more than one can stop the sweet perfume of a rose. You could, of course, hold your nose. But the rose will continue to exude its rich fragrance, even while you suffocate.
Thomas Dale Cowan
#38. If there was one thing Sam understood, it was guilt. It didn't have to be logical; oftentimes it wasn't. It
sawed at your gut relentlessly, tediously, until you wore it like a scar.
Debra Cowan
#39. I've not been distracted by a long-running TV show or visits to America for pilot season.
Elliot Cowan
#40. So, in Kennedy's case, he was a Catholic. And people thought after the Al Smith election and so forth that a Catholic couldn't win in the United States. But when he was able to win in West Virginia, he proved that a Catholic could win, even in a heavily Protestant state.
Geoffrey Cowan
#41. Old soul." I laughed. "You're Thirty."
"It's not the years, it's the experience," he paused.
Maria V. Snyder
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