Random Quotes

I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions.

Sheldon Adelson American Businessman

This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.

Du Fu Chinese Poet

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Oscar Wilde Irish Dramatist

I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.

George Stigler American Economist

Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

Kate Clinton American Comedian

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

Emile M. Cioran Romanian Philosopher

Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.

Georg Brandes Danish Critic

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

Clifford Geertz American Scientist

I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers.

Marlee Matlin American Actress

Wilde is the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last 350 years.

Lord Alfred Douglas British Poet

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

Danielle Steel American Novelist

I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.

Eliza Dushku American Actress

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

William C. Bryant American Poet

Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.

Meir Kahane American Clergyman

I don't know, you know all through high school I just knew I wanted to do it.

Josh Duhamel American Actor

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

S. I. Hayakawa American Politician

Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.

George Stephen Canadian Businessman

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

J. D. Salinger American Novelist

Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles for living.

Jamie Foxx American Actor

All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke Irish Statesman