Mason Cooley Promise Quotations

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

Smiling half-reluctance seems to promise more than the frankest gesture of desire.

To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.

Lies and promises are necessary but not sufficient.

Never trust the judgment of an enthusiastic man; never trust the promises of a lazy one.

Health foods make promises that only the Second Coming could fulfill.

Death promises nothing--not even oblivion.

If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.

The transcendental promises a vacation from history.