Random Quotes

Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.

Samuel Gompers American Activist

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

Leon Kass American Educator

Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.

Fran Drescher American Actress

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

William Allan Scottish Artist

But it was not possible to do this movie, in this matter of time, without a solid rehearsal period.

Debbie Allen American Actress

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

Robert Green Ingersoll American Lawyer

Maybe in a few months I can start to daydream if we are still top of the league. That is the main one for us.

John Terry English Athlete

I wanted to go to sea when I graduated from high school but my folks talked me out of it.

William M. Thomas American Politician

Education of both men and women is a wonderful contraceptive.

Henry W. Kendall American Scientist

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Douglas Horton American Clergyman

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

Charles Lederer

When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

Philip Roth American Novelist

I was just going at this career - boom, boom, boom! Then all of a sudden, at 38, Oh, my God - I forgot to get married!

Connie Chung American Journalist

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

Joseph Brodsky American Poet

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Thomas Carlyle Scottish Philosopher

My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.

Howard Finster American Artist

Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.

Rich Lowry American Editor

Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!

Edward Koch American Politician

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Angela Davis American Activist

An expert is someone who tells you why you can't do something.

Alec Issigonis Turkish Designer