Random Quotes

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

Thomas Sowell American Economist

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

Anne Stevenson American Poet

It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.

Matthew Henry English Clergyman

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

Paul Tsongas American Politician

Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process.

Wietse Venema Dutch Scientist

I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.

Kevin Richardson American Musician

I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street.

James H. Douglas American Politician

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel German Poet

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

Anthony Daniels English Actor

The band we have now on stage is the band I always wanted to be in.

James Young American Musician

I feel like I won the Lotto, as far as that show's concerned.

Peter Gallagher American Actor

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

Jeannette Rankin American Politician

The United Nations cannot stand by and witness the destruction of the people of West Papua.

Bernard Dowiyogo Politician

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

Carl Sandburg American Poet

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

Stella Adler American Actress

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

Russell Banks American Author

I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.

Sting British Musician

My first calendar was a combination of photos taken from different shoots including golf and casual.

Natalie Gulbis American Athlete

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

Karel Reisz Czechoslovakian Director

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

Lucy Stone American Activist