Top 100 Quotes About Cohn
#1. I wondered where Cohn got that incapacity to enjoy Paris. Possibly from Mencken. Mencken hates Paris, I believe. So many young men get their likes and dislikes from Mencken.
Ernest Hemingway,
#2. There is no such thing as a soulmate ... and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.
Ely in Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Rachel Cohn
#3. She's another Deanna Durbin,' [Harry] Cohn said, 'except that she can't sing.
Gene Tierney
#4. I like to think that Harry Cohn is having a somewhat difficult time sleeping in his grave thinking of a chick with a white shag rug taking over his space.
Betsy Beers
#5. Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton.
Ernest Hemingway,
#6. Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work.
Kim Novak
#8. I wanted to go home to the safety of my bed and to my stuffed animals and to my people I'd known my whole life. I had nothing to say to anybody, and fervently prayed that no one there would have anything to say to me.
Rachel Cohn
#9. I also feel fairly confident that the original Texaco Salvatore was a good family man, with perhaps a propensity for wearing his wife's panties and betting his kids' college money at the track, but otherwise a solid dude.
Rachel Cohn
#10. Answer all the questions that I'm too afraid to ask
Rachel Cohn
#11. I felt especially grateful now having the red Moleskine to confide in. Just knowing a Snarl was on the other side to read it - to possibly care - inspired my pen to move quickly in answer to his question.
Rachel Cohn
#12. People who want things to be perfect are always impossible to please. But
Rachel Cohn
#13. Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have, I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets.
Gary Cohn
#14. That's funny. I've always liked Naomi's version of me the best. I'm always much more interesting when she talks about me.
Rachel Cohn
#15. Langston has been in love. Twice. His first big romance ended so badly that he had to leave
Rachel Cohn
#16. The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies.
-Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Rachel Cohn
#17. Children frighten me. I mean, I appreciate them on a cute aesthetic level, but they're very demanding and unreasonable creatures and often smell funny.
Rachel Cohn
#18. Driver, can you tell him that I'm sorry? I wasn't supposed to be like this. I swear.
Rachel Cohn
#19. She said, tell me, are you a Christian, child? I said, Ma'am, I am tonight.
Marc Cohn
#20. Jealousy hot flashes through my body, a thunderbolt crashing through.
Rachel Cohn
#21. It's hard to show you that I tried unless you end up succeeding.
Rachel Cohn
#22. Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously.
Roy Cohn
#23. That's a nice quote," Langston said. "Underline it and fold down the page for me, will you?" I did as instructed.
Rachel Cohn
#24. If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business.
Gary Cohn
#25. Yes, Ryn, a woman. A soldier who has taken the heads of gods, escaped from countless prisons and dungeons, and decimated an army of mortals by herself. Do not underestimate her simply because she wears a bra.
Bethany K. Lovell
#26. Know what the best thing your true love can give you is?" I asked him.
"What?" said Dash.
"True love.
Rachel Cohn
#27. Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it's difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there's nothing else you could ever want.
Rachel Cohn
#28. (Snarl sent me candy! Oh, how I might love him!)
Rachel Cohn
#29. No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.
Rachel Cohn
#30. Whoever invented adding melted cheese over starchy goodness was surely the most brilliant human ever.
Rachel Cohn
#31. There is a finite group of major financial players ... and overall, the best thing for all of us is to be in an industry that's well respected, well regarded, and well thought of.
Gary Cohn
#32. We will go Awful and die together. But we will do it as free Betas. Not as puppets of the humans.
Rachel Cohn
#33. But we had never gone out of our way to reveal ourselves, either. Instead, we'd let the facts speak for themselves.
Rachel Cohn
#35. But, you see, that's the luxury of being a lout - you get to be selective about when you care and when you don't. The rest of us get stuck when your care goes shallow.
Rachel Cohn
#36. It gives me some satisfaction to know that my departure will become somebody else's good luck
Rachel Cohn
#37. I have never met a grateful performer in the movies.
Harry Cohn
#38. There. I've said everything I wanted to say without actually having to use the words please stay
Rachel Cohn
#39. What an idiot Santa is for flying around alone. Because who would want to travel the world without another person's heartbeat beside him?
Rachel Cohn
#40. I know in my heart that I can live without him and I know in my heart that I don't want to-that's a good place to start, right?
Rachel Cohn
#41. Father says we are all Defects, in our way. Humans and clones. He says the word is really just a scare tactic to incite disobedient beings into subservience. He says that's all it really is - just a word.
Rachel Cohn
#42. This is the funny thing about New York - there are so many things to do at all times of the day, but there are still moments when you have no idea which of them to do, and feel extra silly because you know there has to be something out there for you to do; your mind just hasn't found it yet.
Rachel Cohn
#43. And I honestly like her about twenty times more now than I did when we were dating. But love needs to have a future.
Rachel Cohn
#44. Why do girls always fall for guys with the attention span of drosophila?
Rachel Cohn
#45. When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
Rachel Cohn
#46. I wanted to live inside it, not write in it.
Rachel Cohn
#47. It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn't about her. It was about my reaction, what I wanted to feel and then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad. That illusion. It was love because I created it as love." Norah
Rachel Cohn
#48. I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that it's the truth." -Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Rachel Cohn
#49. The girl is dressed in a flannel shirt, and I can't tell whether that's because she's trying to bring back the only fashion style of the past fifty years that hasn't been brought back or whether it's because the shirt is as damn comfortable as it looks.
Rachel Cohn
#50. The reward is in the risk. You can't stay hidden inside Grandpa's overprotective cloak forever. You've seemed like you needed to grow out of that for a while. Mom and Dad going away, and the red notebook, these things just helped. Now it's up to you to
Rachel Cohn
#51. Snarl must love Christmas as much as me, I decided.
Rachel Cohn
#52. I love the way you look when reading a book - content and dreamy, off in another world.
Rachel Cohn
#53. I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.
Roy Cohn
#54. The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don't know But I'm noticing Fuck
Rachel Cohn
#55. The complexity embedded in the different levels of meaning that go along with the words "I love you" ought to be a whole mindfuck of a video game
Rachel Cohn
#56. Sweat, malice, and hunger pour from me. This is release, or maybe it's just a plea for release.
Rachel Cohn
#57. I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there.
Rachel Cohn
#58. The secret tactic of a good hard bargainer is to know when to compromise.
Rachel Cohn
#59. You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall into the right place, not only because it's right, but because it will mean that such a thing is still possible?
Rachel Cohn
#60. But somehow, knowing the Moleskine was tucked away in my bag, containing our thoughts and clues, our imprints to each other, somehow that made me feel safe, like I could have this adventure and not get lost and not call my brother to save me.
Rachel Cohn
#61. We always see the worst in our selves. Our most volnerable selves. We need someone to get close enough to tell us that we're wrong. Someone we trust.
Rachel Cohn
#62. If you must get in trouble, do it at the Chateau Marmont.
Harry Cohn
#63. I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator.
Rachel Cohn
#64. I think it's time to experience life outside the notebook.
Rachel Cohn
#65. All this hoping for nothing-or someone-that's maybe hopeless
Rachel Cohn
#66. Richard Wright, a Mississippi-born negro, has written a blinding and corrosive study in hate. It is a novel entitled "Native Son".
David L. Cohn
#67. I have a foolproof device for judging whether a picture is good or bad. If my fanny squirms, it's bad. If my fanny doesn't squirm, it's good.
Harry Cohn
#68. You have to believe. You have to stick to your guns.
Arthur Cohn
#69. Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.
Rachel Cohn
#70. She doesn't want the boy causing the distinction between "love" and "in love
Rachel Cohn
#72. I think you're nice to me and that scares the fuck out of me. Because when a guy's a jerk or an asshole, it's easier because you know where you stand.
Rachel Cohn
#73. Could it be that different political views, different religions and even scientific theories had been looking at our reality from different angles? If so, we should not accept or prefer one over the other, but instead we must aim to draw the best out of each view.
Ardiana Bani Cohn
#74. I'm not sure I ever even liked Tal, much less loved him, and by the way, Tal, I believe the Palestinians should have their own state.
Rachel Cohn
#75. I'm so into you, it's not even funny. (Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List)
Rachel Cohn
#76. I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.
Roy Cohn
#77. It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.
Rachel Cohn
#78. This is why I should consider breaking my straight-edge vow. Beer most certainly would help this situation. It probably couldn't make it any worse. Basic
Rachel Cohn
#79. Many years ago, he owned a neighborhood family grocery store on Avenue A in the East Village.
Rachel Cohn
#80. What's of more concern: If I don't shut down my brain soon, my imagination will take off so far about what could be with this guy, that nothing will ever be able to just be.
Rachel Cohn
#81. I want to believe that, despite all evidence to the contrary, it is possible for anyone to find that one special person. That person to spend Christmas with or grow old with or just take a nice silly walk in Central Park with.
Rachel Cohn
#82. I go from chords to cords, amped to amps.
Rachel Cohn
#83. Boy needs to get a good night's sleep. Otherwise, he'll be lucky to get accepted at SUNY-So Far Upstate You Might As Well Be In Canada, eh?
Rachel Cohn
#84. So that's my philosophy: If you believe in yourself, the chances and the opportunities will come around.
Mindy Cohn
#85. I instantly regretted my comeback but that's the thing about unkind words. You can try to undo the damage, but (a) it's hard when you're all coffee-ed up, and (b) you can't take it back, ever.
Rachel Cohn
#86. It wasn't about the fantasy. That was
now replaced with hope and belief that it could happen, for real.
Rachel Cohn
#87. Please return this notebook to where you found it.
Rachel Cohn
#88. I know there was no God waiting for her, because no God could have let her find Him this soon.
Rachel Cohn
#89. It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.
Arthur Cohn
#90. It seemed weird to me that he'd spent his Christmas alone ... and had seemed to like it. He hadn't seemed to think anyone should feel sorry for him about that, either.
Rachel Cohn
#91. He sold the business but kept the corner block building,
Rachel Cohn
#92. Walking in Memphis, I was walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale. Walking in Memphis, but do I really feel the way I feel?
Marc Cohn
#94. I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons.
Gary Cohn
#95. Have a goal. Know where you want to end up. Knowing where you want to end up is a lot easier than figuring out how to start and how to get there. You will figure out how to get there. Do not chart your career. Trust me; you do not want to chart your career.
Gary Cohn
#96. If I wasn't the head of a studio, who would talk to me?
Harry Cohn
#97. The humans create life, and senselessly cause death. For nothing.
Rachel Cohn
#98. Finding A Way
I'd like you for a friend.
I'd like to find the way
of asking you to be my friend.
I don't know what to say.
What would you like to hear?
What is it I can do?
There has to be some word, some look
Connecting me to you.
Myra Cohn Livingston
#99. And It's not entirely true that I've never been in love. I had a pet gerbil in first grade....
Rachel Cohn
#100. A bell rings and Pavlov's dog has a fucking seizure on the dance floor.
Rachel Cohn
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