T Cooper Quotes

Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.

I'm not wild about holidays. They always seem a ludicrously expensive way of proving there's no place like home.

Although it is the biggest time-waster in office life, you must never underrate the importance of the memo. You will be judged by the volume of your paper work.

A lot of meetings are held to arrange when to have meetings. ... Meetings today are usually called conferences to make them sound more significant.

hurting other people is not excusable because you've been hurt yourself.

Bachelors begin at thirty-six. Up till this age they are regarded as single men.

The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.

Go to lots of interviews, at least one a month even when you don't need a job, to keep in training for when you do.

in a village you can't sack or fight with someone, as you'll find yourself stuck beside them in the hairdresser's next morning.

I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.

There is nothing more attractive than a man who is not a New Man.

My own parents loved each other very much.

I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.

But really I'm not terribly interested in what I eat.

There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.

But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.

Meetings ... are rather like cocktail parties. You don't want to go, but you're cross not to be asked.

Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.

It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.

Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about governments failure to fix real problems.

Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.

It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.

Fitness is a journey, not a destination; you must continue for the rest of your life.

I think investments in general related to the exercise industry are going to be good for a long time.

You have to run 75 to 100 miles a week if you expect to break the four-minute mile.

Gasoline inventories are tighter than they were a few weeks ago. It's all about perception, because inventories are well above where they have been in previous years.

I'm the best at being lucky.

Tonight will be bad, and tomorrow will be beyond imagining.

Poets find truth by writing about what they love.

Too many!' James shouted, and slammed the door behind him.

But once in a great while he remembered that he had felt pain, a terrible ache in his heart, and he swore he would never let himself feel love for a human again.

I think for some reason people are drawn to stories of all kinds, for some reason they land harder when they are "true." And yet in fiction, I think there is a lot of deeper truth, too.

People of difference are always held to different standards.

I think I approach all of my writing in the same way. I mean, it's my job, and I'm committed to it. I don't just float around and wait for some muse to call.

There are just so many ways to talk about masculinity, it feels like one medium can't do it alone.

Nobody should have to clean up what goes on around the base of most toilets.

I think N.Y.C. definitely had something to do with my figuring out my life path.

I love anything to do with serial killers.

Two cannibals eating a clown. One asks the other, 'Does this taste funny to you?'

So a lorry-load of tortoises crashed into a train-load of terrapins, I thought "That's a turtle disaster".

Our ice cream man was found lying on the floor of his van covered with hundreds and thousands. Police say that he topped himself.

So I was in Tesco's and I saw this man and woman wrapped in a barcode. I said "Are you two an item?"

So I said to this train driver "I want to go to Paris". He said "Eurostar?". I said "I've been on telly but I'm no Dean Martin".

So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red rose and says "Your eyes sparkle like diamonds". I said "Waiter, I asked for a-ROMATIC duck".

T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to develop it.

T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others.

See yourself as you really are.Accept the good and the bad.Only then can you truly share yourself with another.

Be the person you needed when you needed help.

What if we treated the ones we loved the same way we treated ourselves?

Whoever said that money didn't buy happiness was a damn fool. A damn fool who'd never been poor.