Random Quotes

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

Jimmy Carter American President

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

Tim O'Reilly

I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.

Al Hirt American Musician

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

Laurence J. Peter Canadian Writer

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Homer Greek Poet

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

James Bryce English Diplomat

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.

Caspar David Friedrich German Artist

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.

Jim Capaldi British Musician

You wiggle to the left, you wiggle to the right, you do the Ooby Dooby with all your might.

Roy Orbison American Musician

So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance.

Moshe Sharett Israeli Statesman

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Ogden Nash American Poet

As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl.

Erich von Stroheim Austrian Actor

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Oscar Wilde Irish Dramatist

I'm not knocking the poor homosexual, I'm not. They need salvation just like anybody else.

Jimmy Swaggart American Clergyman

I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man.

Ned Beatty American Actor

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

Thomas Fuller English Clergyman

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

M. H. Abrams Critic

I suppose being his twin made me understand Robin that much more easily.

Maurice Gibb Australian Musician

I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

Jill Clayburgh American Actress

We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!

Al Dubin Swiss Musician