Random Quotes

Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

F. Murray Abraham American Actor

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers American Actor

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

Shmuel Y. Agnon

The Scouts are a private organization and have every right to set their own membership standards.

John Doolittle American Politician

I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.

Seth MacFarlane American Cartoonist

When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.

Will Rogers American Actor

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

Jacques Barzun American Educator

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts.

Brooks Robinson Athlete

40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight.

Tom Lantos American Diplomat

Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States.

Tiny Rowland British Businessman

Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.

Taryn Manning American Actress

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

Stanley Fish American Writer

For some people, their idea of getting tough is longer suspended sentences.

Jeremy Larner American Author

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it.

Gerry Mulligan American Musician

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Aeschylus Greek Poet

Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.

Bo Bennett American Businessman

I shot this wonderful picture called American Saint a couple of years ago, which is still looking for release.

Vincent Schiavelli American Actor

There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office.

Tim Robbins American Actor

I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.

Frank McCourt Irish Author

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

Eric Hoffer American Writer