"The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes. It's useful because it addresses the heart in the midst of all these activities, and it will always be useful in this very important way." — Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer, born 1934
"If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself." — Stephen Colbert, American political satirist, born 1964
"I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly. The air is the only place free from prejudice." — Bessie Coleman, First African American female pilot, born 1892
"The air is the only place free from prejudice." — Bessie Coleman, First African American female pilot, born 1892
"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from." — Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English composer, born 1875
"The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman." — Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English composer, born 1875
"All thoughts, all passions, all delights, whatever stirs this mortal frame, all are but ministers of Love and feed His sacred flame." — Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English composer, born 1875
"To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed." — Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English composer, born 1875
"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind." — Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English composer, born 1875
"Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants." — Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English composer, born 1875
"We are the creature of language, and through language we affirm ourselves." — Robert Coles, American psychologist, born 1929
"I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil." — Billy Collins, American poet, born 1941
"You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either continue to write puerile bilge, or you change. In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice." — Billy Collins, American poet, born 1941