Random Quotes

We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.

Harri Holkeri Finnish Politician

My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.

Francis Asbury English Clergyman

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

Graham Nash British Musician

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

J. B. Priestley British Writer

I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.

Hank Sauer American Athlete

I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.

Miroslav Vitous Czechoslovakian Musician

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

Albert Camus French Philosopher

I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood.

Eric Cantona French Athlete

You can put me in the basement or the penthouse; it doesn't matter to me.

Davy Jones English Musician

Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'

Russell B. Long American Politician

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

William O. Douglas American Judge

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld French Writer

In medicine, as in statecraft and propaganda, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use.

Sara Murray Jordan

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

Austin O'Malley American Physicist

Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.

Rip Torn American Actor

The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

Abbie Hoffman American Activist

It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.

Hugh Mackay

It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?

David Letterman American Comedian

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

George Will Journalist

Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.

Kenneth Scott Latourette American Historian