Random Quotes

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Joseph Stalin Russian Leader

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German Poet

No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.

Robert Walpole British Statesman

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

Salvador Dali Spanish Artist

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

George Foreman American Athlete

I think anything Tony Kaye would've done would've been interesting, definitely. And worth seeing.

Ethan Suplee American Actor

Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.

David Frost English Journalist

If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.

Skitch Henderson American Musician

Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.

Jane Kaczmarek American Actress

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

Wally Lamb American Author

I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single.

Paula Danziger American Author

I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.

Roger Ebert American Critic

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

Don Marquis American Poet

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt American First Lady

If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.

Howard Zinn American Historian

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

Robert Frost American Poet

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

Natalie Clifford Barney American Author

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas American Activist

Mr Tony Hopkins says he's willing to do it if he likes the script.

Dino De Laurentiis Italian Director

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

F. Scott Fitzgerald American Author