Random Quotes

I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away.

Phyllis Diller American Comedian

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld French Writer

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Dwight D. Eisenhower American President

When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course.

John Cale Welsh Musician

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

I don't think I have the mileage on me to really complain of any injuries yet.

Shannon Miller American Athlete

Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.

Camille Claudel French Sculptor

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.

Ronald Firbank English Novelist

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.

Gyorgy Ligeti Hungarian Composer

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

Edvard Munch Norwegian Artist

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

Jim Bishop American Journalist

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Daniel Defoe English Journalist

I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.

Elizabeth Banks American Actress

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.

Kazimir Malevich Polish Artist

I was much involved in the development of the spark chamber as a practical research tool.

James Cronin American Physicist

When first we met we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master.

Robert Bridges English Poet

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

James F. Byrnes American Politician

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

Joseph Addison English Writer

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.

Todd Gitlin American Sociologist

So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there.

Genevieve Gorder American Designer