Joseph Cognard > Joseph's Quotes

“Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king.”
― Josephine Hull

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Myrtle Mae, you have a lot to learn, and I hope you never learn it.”
― Mary Chase, Harvey

“Doug: Either straighten out your life or drink more coffee. And from what I heard about you, Id do the latte.”
― Joseph Cognard, Written for You

“I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

“Harvey and I sit in the bars... have a drink or two... play the juke box. And soon the faces of all the other people they turn toward mine and they smile. And they're saying, "We don't know your name, mister, but you're a very nice fella." Harvey and I warm ourselves in all these golden moments. We've entered as strangers - soon we have friends. And they come over... and they sit with us... and they drink with us... and they talk to us. They tell about the big terrible things they've done and the big wonderful things they'll do. Their hopes, and their regrets, and their loves, and their hates. All very large, because nobody ever brings anything small into a bar. And then I introduce them to Harvey... and he's bigger and grander than anything they offer me. And when they leave, they leave impressed. The same people seldom come back; but that's envy, my dear. There's a little bit of envy in the best of us.”
― Elwood P. Dowd

“Oh, Myrtle, don't be didactic. It's not becoming in a young girl. Besides, men loathe it.”
― Veta Louise Simmons

“Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about.”
― Tom Wolfe

“Doug: I would not wipe my ass with your manuscript. Would you like to know why?
Bob: Sure
Doug: Because there is crap already all over it.”
― Joseph Cognard, Written for You

“a kite is a victim you are sure of.
you love it because it pulls.”
― Leonard Cohen

“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“An object at rest can not be stopped!”
― The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight!