Mason Cooley
Mason Cooley
Mason Cooleywas an American aphorist known for his witty aphorisms. One of these such aphorisms Cooley developed was "The time I kill is killing me."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
happiness ordinary routine
The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.
ordinary hints kind
Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
want ordinary understood
I want to appear ordinary, but I have it understood that I am not.
worry ordinary watches
I reject all evidence that my fabulous beloved is an ordinary person who worries, watches TV, and has bouts of indigestion.
home reality ordinary
Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.
age demand ordinary
Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.
success congratulations ordinary
After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
I see what you mean, but I do not think what you think.
nice literature hobbies
Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.
im-sorry sorry mistrust
Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.
art avant-garde care
Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.
stories literature insult
Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.
beginning-middle-and-end abandoned ends
The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned.
modern paint depiction
Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.