Random Quotes

When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them.

Michael Winterbottom British Director

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Benjamin Franklin American Politician

Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.

Rich Lowry American Editor

I'm clenched down, I'm locked in on it, which is my general approach to life.

James Ellroy American Writer

I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.

Al Goldstein American Publisher

I got his initials tattooed on the back of my neck, you know, since we both now have the same initials.

Ashley Scott American Actress

Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed.

Christiaan Rudolf de Wet South African Politician

It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.

Barry Watson American Actor

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Elbert Hubbard American Writer

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

Stephen Leacock Canadian Economist

I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

Gale Norton American Public Servant

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

Paul Valery French Poet

A marriage license should not be viewed as a license for a husband to forcibly rape his wife with impunity.

Sol Wachtler American Judge

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Francis Bacon English Philosopher

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Ronald Reagan American President

We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.

John Phillips American Musician

A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold.

Marlo Thomas American Actress

Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.

Samuel P. Huntington American Sociologist

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

James M. Baldwin

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

Paul Getty American Businessman