Random Quotes

Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.

Wole Soyinka Nigerian Dramatist

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

Daniel J. Boorstin American Historian

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Oprah Winfrey American Entertainer

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Alexander Pope English Poet

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

Tom Hanks American Actor

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

Benjamin Jowett English Theologian

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

Tadao Ando Japanese Architect

Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.

Ken Kesey American Author

And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.

Alanis Morissette Canadian Musician

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Flannery O'Connor American Author

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

Olive Schreiner South African Writer

The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.

Ville Valo Finnish Musician

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

Nat King Cole American Musician

I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.

James Levine American Musician

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge English Poet

You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.

Billy Graham American Clergyman

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

Ivy Compton-Burnett English Novelist

And at the end of the day, if the movie's no good, I'll live to fight another day.

Scott Caan American Actor

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

Elizabeth Moon American Author

Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.

Ann Rule American Writer