#pro

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#commonplace #did #done #effect #freshness

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away. ↗

— Richard J. Codey

#carpet #go #go away #hoped #illness

I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#between #choose #conventional #down #i

Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised. I will be watching like a hawk. ↗

— Sebastian Coe

#deliver #determined #effort #hawk #i

The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London. ↗

— Sebastian Coe

#best #conditions #designed #dreams #games

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#even #getting #lose #promising #start

If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#animal #belong #consciousness #difficult #feelings

My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#answer #been #continue #dubious #hesitant

I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right. I'm very, very good at writing protocols. I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#arrogant #because #come #did #ever

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#director #music #present #program #want