Roeg Cohen Quotes

The computer finally booted but could not find its modem, the modem could not find a signal and the helpscreen automatically loaded. Diagnostic scan in progress. Rotating hourglass, grains in the queue. Quit everything, restart. Quit everything, shut down, unplug, burn the house, build another house, replug, restart. ~ Joshua Cohen

Art that samples other art, quotes that quote other quotes--your writer knows this phenomenon, in jargon 'he's aware', he was raised in a culture of (not more ironic jargon, select only the most appropriate gustatory analogy): regurgitation, a culture of glutting to vomit and glutting again on the vomit until reemesis--chunky cheese mimesis--then licking that puddle again. ~ Joshua Cohen

There are no letters in the mailbox
And there are no grapes upon the vine
And there are no chocolates in your boxes anymore
And there are no diamonds in the mine ~ Leonard Cohen

Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground. ~ Alan Cohen

'I am that I am,' said the Eternal. The Eternal - it is the race. One in substance - undifferentiated. One in time - stable and eternal. ~ Kadmi Cohen

In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to support this interest with skills and techniques related to the process of finding out than to specify any particular piece of subject matter as inviolate. ~ Dorothy H Cohen

Freedom has no history. ~ Andrew Cohen

There is a crack in everything ~ Leonard Cohen

We'd met at university, where he was studying medicine and I was studying social awkwardness and a catastrophic inability to cope with deadlines. ~ Tammy Cohen

When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain. ~ Andrew Cohen

His knowledge of ancient Greece was based entirely on a poem Edgar Allan Poe, a few homosexual encounters with restaurateurs (he ate free at almost every soda fountain in the city), and a plaster reproduction of the Akropolis which, for some reason, he had coated with red nail polish. ~ Leonard Cohen

Anger is the ego's way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable. ~ Alan Cohen

To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority. ~ Morris Raphael Cohen

For man is a symbol-making animal. He constructs a symbolic model of outer reality in his brain, and expresses it by a second set of symbols in terms of words, equations, pigment, or stone. All he knows directly are bodily sensations, and all he can directly do is to perform bodily motions; the rest of his knowledge and means of expression is symbolical. To use a phrase coined by J. Cohen, man has a metaphorical consciousness. Any attempt to get a direct grasp at naked reality is self-defeating; Urania, too, like the other muses, always has a last veil left to fold in. ~ Arthur Koestler

The worst that one can say of the Christian clergyman today is that he actually believes what he teaches. ~ Chapman Cohen

The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows. ~ Leonard Cohen

Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson. ~ Alan Cohen

Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word. ~ Leonard Cohen

We decided to redefine the bottom line at Ben & Jerry's ~ Ben Cohen

Exercise stimulates growth plates, by putting pressure on bone cells, forcing them to specialize and create new cells. Too much pressure, however, damages the growth plates, which are soft and fragile ... The rule of thumb is that lifting one's own body weight (in push-ups,pull-ups, etc) is fine at any age, and kids over fifteen can lift weights. ~ Arianne Cohen

I take a daily men's multivitamin. Why would I take vitamins for women? Because I want less of what's important, fewer nutrients and minerals? I refuse to conspire in my own oppression. ~ Elisabeth Cohen

The riveting moral power of the Arab Spring comes from its homegrown quality. This is about Arabs overcoming fear to become agents of their own transformation and liberation. ~ Roger Cohen

Play is also a way to be close and, even more important, a way to reconnect after the closeness has been severed. Chimpanzees like to tickle one another's palms, especially after they have had a fight. Thus, the second purpose of play serves our incredible - almost bottomless - need for attachment and affection and closeness. ~ Lawrence J. Cohen

After a certain point you quit trying to prove yourself to anyone and you simply live in the way that makes you happy. ~ Alan Cohen

How would I be doing this differently if I were WILLING to let it be easy? ~ Alan Cohen

When I am alone
You'll come back to me
It's happened before
It's called memory

I'm not even sure
If I know where to start
But starting is second
First we must part
I'm too tired now
To fight anymore
We're saying goodbye
At the innermost door ~ Leonard Cohen

When you finally give up striving, you will be left with what you have been striving for. ~ Alan Cohen

Dear Hitler
Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this ~ Leonard Cohen

Your servant here, he has been told
to say it clear, to say it cold:
It's over, it ain't going
any further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
you feel the devil's riding crop
Get ready for the future:
it is murder ~ Leonard Cohen

How may we be saints and live in golden coffins
Who will leave on our stone shelves
pathetic notes for intervention
How may we be calm marble gods at ocean altars
Who will murder us for some high reason ~ Leonard Cohen

The birth of the search engine, it's nothing new: it's essentially embedded in our literature; it's how ideas relate, how the mind makes connections. I mean, connections are made online through links, and within an algorithm, they're made through degrees of relevancy between different terms. ~ Joshua Cohen

Each day move a little more from tightening to lightening. ~ Alan Cohen

I absolutely love low-key restaurants. ~ Andy Cohen

The person who should really write an appreciation of the late great Dom DeLuise is Burt Reynolds, who, even more than Mel Brooks, made of the jolly, beanie wearing fat man a side-kick and a legend. ~ Rich Cohen

The crash of 2008 ought to have thrown a bucket of cold water over the excited futurologists. Open societies suffered far more than closed regimes. A member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was entitled to wonder why Americans were telling him he must allow free speech when China was booming and the First Amendment had not stopped debt-laden America going through a deep recession. ~ Nick Cohen

My first intervention is to say, when your baby is born, just don't jump on your kid at night," Cohen says, "Give your baby a chance to self-soothe, don't automatically respond, even from birth. ~ Pamela Druckerman

Children of eight and nine who love their mothers dearly will cross to the other side of the street when they see her coming, if they happen to be with friends, because to greet or be greeted by their mothers in the presence of peers is to acknowledge having been (and perhaps still being) a baby. ~ Dorothy H Cohen