Random Quotes

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

Louis Nizer English Lawyer

There's only so many times you can read how ugly you are and how much people hate you.

Lizzy Caplan American Actress

The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.

Charles Van Doren American Celebrity

In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'

Tom Lehrer American Musician

We are extremely attractive to page companies, because we significantly increase their user base.

David Rose American Musician

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

E. T. A. Hoffmann Critic

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

George Orwell British Author

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette French Novelist

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

Kristin Hersh American Musician

The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.

Bill Vaughan American Journalist

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

Jane Porter Irish Novelist

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Andre Gide French Novelist

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

Eric Hoffer American Writer

You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.

Maurice Ravel French Composer

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Andrew Carnegie American Businessman

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

Robert Anton Wilson American Writer

I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist.

Kim Weston American Photographer

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

Thomas A. Edison American Inventor

The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.

Ali Hoseini-Khamenei

I just want to get to the level where I can say that that's my level, just try to play well, get up there.

Jennifer Capriati American Athlete