Random Quotes

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.

Paul D. Boyer American Scientist

You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else.

Radclyffe Hall English Poet

I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.

Eric Brown Writer

When I saw 'The Player', I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my experience.

Douglas Wood American Writer

I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

Kanye West American Musician

Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

George M. Cohan American Actor

The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.

Rush Limbaugh American Entertainer

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

P. J. O'Rourke American Comedian

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge English Poet

A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.

Norma Shearer American Actress

I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.

Caroline Corr Irish Musician

I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.

Barbara Cook Musician

The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.

Tom Ford American Designer

Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.

Werner Heisenberg German Physicist

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

Theodor Adorno German Philosopher

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

Reinhold Niebuhr American Theologian

The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.

Richard Stengel

It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs.

John Gardner American Novelist

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Thomas Sowell American Economist

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

George Orwell British Author