Random Quotes

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

Stephen Chow Chinese Actor

Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.

Patricia Ireland American Activist

For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.

James Broughton American Director

I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.

Jean Rhys English Novelist

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

Sydney Pollack American Director

But today the quickest way to save your bottom line is to cut off research.

Amar Bose American Inventor

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.

George Ade American Playwright

We know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don't act.

David Axelrod American Public Servant

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

Dennis Potter British Dramatist

In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.

Gloria Steinem American Activist

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

Dan Quayle American Vice President

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.

Francis Parker Yockey American Writer

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld French Writer

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.

John Dos Passos American Novelist

Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.

Mortimer Adler American Philosopher

In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.

Yasser Arafat Leader

I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.

Dick Bruna Artist

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

Salman Rushdie Indian Novelist

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

Richard Russo American Novelist

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

Al Boliska