Kaz Cooke Quotes

#1. Sit peacefully in a church and think of church history: witchburning perhaps, or child abuse, genocide, the amassing of disgusting wealth, the repression of women, inquisitions, castrating child choir singers, the denial of Santa Claus and the support of fascists in power.

Kaz Cooke

#2. Actuaries are people who wanted to be accountants but didn't have the personality.

Kaz Cooke

#3. I'm not a feminist,' some women say sternly as they march off to work where equal opportunity legislation protects them ... Women who say they are not feminists and act like individuals with basic human rights have just got their terminology wrong.

Kaz Cooke

#4. I am not a follower of Monet. I am not an admirer or follower of De Kooning. I am not an action painter. I am not an abstract expressionist. I am not younger or older. I will not take my hat off to any other artist living or dead in all the world. I know this.

Milton Resnick

#5. Enlightened legislation or enlightened social activity of whatever kind, does play into the hands of people with agendas of their own. If you legalize euthanasia, you provide a field day for people who like killing other people.

J.G. Ballard

#6. These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.

John Muir

#7. At times like this, tears exorcise emotions that would otherwise haunt me and, by their haunting, embitter me

Dean Koontz

#8. I don't like to hurry. I'm not a conductor of the fast, fiery romantic type. I prefer Bruckner, with the sincerity of his musical language and the huge time spans in which his ideas develop, to Mahler, with his hysteria and self-indulgence.

Jeffrey Tate

#9. Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

Joshua Leonard

#10. I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

Cameron Mackintosh

#11. Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah ... it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

Rumi

#12. The style police think that what we look like is more important than anything, and it is their job to seek out and punish those who break their own fashion rules

Kaz Cooke

#13. What is Paris? ... Where nobody throws stones, for all live in glass houses.

Sophie Irene Loeb

#14. You are not your buttocks.

Kaz Cooke