Random Quotes

Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.

Sidney Sheldon American Novelist

My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.

Sadie Frost English Actress

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Jean Paul German Author

Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.

Beth Henley American Playwright

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

Alison Bechdel American Cartoonist

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

John Gray American Author

In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.

David Mamet American Dramatist

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Marlene Dietrich American Actress

I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.

Ewan McGregor Scottish Actor

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

Max Euwe Dutch Celebrity

The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.

Hans Kung Swiss Theologian

Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.

Alison Bechdel American Cartoonist

The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well.

Alfred Adler Austrian Psychologist

You know, every year has been fantastic for me, I'm still here, I'm still alive and it's been fantastic.

Graham Nash British Musician

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Russian Author

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

Mark Russell American Writer

I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.

Shirley MacLaine American Actress

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

Edmund Waller English Poet

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

Edward Bond English Playwright

Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.

John Leonard Australian Poet