Random Quotes

Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?

Ada Cambridge English Writer

I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.

Esai Morales American Actor

Probably right at the end of JAG, I would love to have a child or two. I ultimately want to have two kids.

Catherine Bell British Model

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

Angelina Jolie American Actress

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

Edna O'Brien Irish Novelist

The biggest thing I remember is that there was just no transition. You hit the ground diapering.

Paul Reiser American Comedian

We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option.

Peter MacKay Canadian Politician

Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn.

Roy Barnes American Politician

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

Paul Tsongas American Politician

As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.

Marc Almond British Musician

Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.

Jim Fowler American Scientist

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Will Rogers American Actor

I thought you were supposed to be flying this thing, not pleasuring it.

Paul Gallagher Scottish Athlete

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.

Glenda Jackson British Actress

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

Martha Gellhorn American Journalist

I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.

James Stockdale American Soldier

The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.

Peter R. Grant American Scientist

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

Thomas J. Watson American Scientist

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

Philip Levine American Poet

I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.

Lynda Barry American Cartoonist