Random Quotes

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Bob Dylan American Musician

You open the show with a bang, then don't come back on for 45 minutes.

Robert Goulet American Musician

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Nadine Gordimer South African Novelist

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

Arthur Schopenhauer German Philosopher

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

Augusten Burroughs American Writer

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

Pietro Aretino Italian Poet

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Alphonse de Lamartine French Poet

I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.

Norman Granz American Musician

People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.

Stephen Gardiner British Architect

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

Robert Burns Scottish Poet

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

Lucinda Williams American Musician

At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever.

Brian May English Musician

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Mark Twain American Author

We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.

Harold Taylor Canadian Politician

With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.

Sammy Davis, Jr. American Entertainer

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

Harold Pinter English Dramatist

But when I think of superchicks, I think of the roles, not the variety.

Adrienne Barbeau American Actress

You have to have a lifestyle if you live in LA, otherwise it's deadly.

Jacqueline McKenzie Australian Actress

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.

Ronald Firbank English Novelist

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

Ken Thompson American Scientist