Random Quotes

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

Jason Schwartzman American Actor

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

John Updike American Novelist

Well, I use the word Satanist, but I don't know if I ever really considered myself as somebody who's into Satan.

Boyd Rice American Artist

We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.

Sandy Duncan American Musician

There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

Mario Batali American Celebrity

It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?

Marcus Allen American Athlete

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

Ezra Pound American Poet

The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.

Elizabeth Dole American Politician

I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.

Mike Tyson American Athlete

It's been a tremendous ride. My 15 years, my 15 minutes of fame, is up.

Emmitt Smith American Athlete

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson American Sculptor

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca Roman Statesman

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

Harold Bloom American Critic

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

William James American Philosopher

Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me.

James MacArthur American Actor

I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

Olivier Martinez French Actor

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Helen Keller American Author

When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece.

Harold Budd American Composer

The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.

Michael Faraday English Scientist

For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.

George Orwell British Author