Random Quotes

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.

Ruth Rendell British Writer

If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.

David Duchovny American Actor

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

Leslie Stephen English Author

News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.

Val Kilmer American Actor

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

Herman Melville American Novelist

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

Sophie Marceau French Actress

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Edward Abbey American Author

I'm not much of a club goer because every time I do go I get in trouble.

Lita Ford American Musician

The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.

Donald L. Carcieri American Politician

I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through.

Margaret Whiting American Musician

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

Marsilio Ficino Italian Philosopher

I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.

Levon Helm American Musician

The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!

Adam Savage American Entertainer

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.

Theodore Sturgeon American Writer

Ever see a little kid walking around talking to himself? I'm the same way.

Chubby Checker American Musician

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

Gertrude Stein American Author

But I think the record will actually come from tapes that are not yet recorded.

Evan Parker British Musician

It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.

Jimmy Carl Black American Musician

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

Norman MacCaig Scottish Poet

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Aleister Crowley English Critic