Random Quotes

Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.

Mary Lou Retton American Athlete

Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.

Itzhak Perlman Israeli Musician

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

Henry Ellis British Psychologist

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Ambrose Bierce American Journalist

Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

Yousuf Karsh Canadian Photographer

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

Anatole France French Novelist

The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

Edgar Watson Howe American Editor

Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.

Molly Ivins American Journalist

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

Carlisle Floyd American Composer

I don't know that there is too far, actually. I think there's only too bad. If it's bad you've gone too far.

Kenneth Branagh Irish Actor

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

Thomas Reed American Politician

There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.

Martin C. Smith

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Mary Wilson Little American Writer

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln American President

That's when it really came together for me that I was in a Bond film, to have my own spy car!

Rick Yune American Actor

I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.

Daniel Johns Australian Musician

Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

Zebulon Pike American Soldier

I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to.

Thayer David American Actor

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

James J. Gibson American Psychologist

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

Andrea Dworkin American Critic