#aw

For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#afternoon #boy #coal #everyday #everyday lives

When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#chicago #close #draw #eyes #i

The president appoints the judges. Your lives and your children's lives can change by all of these appellate court judges who will be appointed who will reinterpret laws, and things can change. ↗

— Johnnie Cochran

#appoints #change #children #court #judges

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them. ↗

— William Cobbett

#cause #common #common cause #consider #enough

I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#away #bad #go #go away #going

I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age. ↗

— Johnnie Cochran

#age #decided #i #lawyer #wanted

As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#achieve #actually #ambition #awkward #course

I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords in a week and you're away. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#been #chords #how #i #just

For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already decided the outcome, why don't I just hand in an essay? Maybe if we talk we'll find something out. I'd rather just have an awkward pause. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#also #ask #awkward #decided #drives

You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's far enough in the past, that's when you think, 'Now I have to write something new.' ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#away #drift #enough #far #gradually