Random Quotes

I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.

Lou Henry Hoover American First Lady

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

Henri Bergson French Philosopher

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Denis Waitley American Writer

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Ralph Waldo Emerson American Poet

The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.

Max Bill Swiss Architect

Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.

Bob Geldof Irish Actor

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

Wole Soyinka Nigerian Dramatist

We didn't do an American tour because it I know it wouldn't go down well.

Dee Dee Ramone American Musician

We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.

Barney Ross American Athlete

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Mohandas Gandhi Indian Leader

The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did.

Wynton Marsalis American Musician

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

Alan Cumming Scottish Actor

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

Doug Coupland Canadian Author

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow American Poet

In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'

Tom Lehrer American Musician

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

Dennis Miller American Comedian

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

Agatha Christie English Writer

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

Adrian Belew American Musician

In some ways, I've always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song.

Petula Clark British Musician

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

George Bernard Shaw Irish Dramatist