Quote

You gave me a significant look, but significant of what?

Mason Cooley

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
Aphorist
Significance
Significant
Gave
Look
Looks

More quotes by Mason Cooley

Image
Wallace Stevens: the Platonist celebrates endless change, but with regret.
Mason Cooley
Image
When understanding would be too difficult, I become trusting.
Mason Cooley
Image
My thought has been shaped by books my desires by pictures.
Mason Cooley
Image
Life is what it makes you.
Mason Cooley
Image
Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it.
Mason Cooley
Image
Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck.
Mason Cooley
Image
The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.
Mason Cooley
Image
I keep eating for fear I will be hungry.
Mason Cooley
Image
Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
Mason Cooley
Image
The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.
Mason Cooley
Image
Rebuttals never alter desire.
Mason Cooley
Image
I was once in love with books. Now they go their way and I go mine.
Mason Cooley
Image
An insult angers me. Being ignored crushes me.
Mason Cooley
Image
I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence.
Mason Cooley
Image
Worry is not thought complaining is not action.
Mason Cooley
Image
Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure.
Mason Cooley
Image
Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.
Mason Cooley
Image
The lazy manage to keep up with the earth's rotation just as well as the industrious.
Mason Cooley
Image
The desire to be significant casts a pall.
Mason Cooley
Image
When love ends, the beloved is no longer standing on a pedestal, but in a hole.
Mason Cooley