Random Quotes

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Marcus Tullius Cicero Roman Statesman

Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.

Robert Redford American Actor

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

Grenville Kleiser American Author

There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.

Jack Kemp American Politician

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

Michel de Montaigne French Philosopher

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Samuel Richardson English Novelist

Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.

Emily Greene Balch American Educator

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

Thomas Aquinas Italian Theologian

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

Bernard Meltzer American Lawyer

Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.

Joan Didion American Author

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

Andy Warhol American Artist

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

Edward Coke English Businessman

Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.

Steve Lacy American Musician

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

Oscar Wilde Irish Dramatist

I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.

Steve Allen American Entertainer

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

Kazuo Ishiguro Japanese Author

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

Francis Parker Yockey American Writer

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

Clyde Tombaugh American Scientist

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol Spanish Poet

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

Franz Liszt Hungarian Composer