Random Quotes

Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.

Garry Kasparov Azerbaijani Celebrity

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Holly Near American Musician

Our site should be like Paddington Station with a much better version of WH Smith's in it.

Colin Greenwood British Musician

The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.

Thomas Friedman American Journalist

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

Norman Mailer American Novelist

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Thomas Kempis German Writer

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

Doug Coupland Canadian Author

I've talked about sex a great deal in my music for a great while now. I feel very comfortable with it.

Janet Jackson American Musician

Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau German Musician

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

Ken Follett Welsh Author

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

George Bernard Shaw Irish Dramatist

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

Michael Caine English Actor

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gale Norton American Public Servant

Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.

Esa-Pekka Salonen Finnish Musician

Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.

Bill Condon American Director

I don't smoke, I don't drink much, I don't eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.

Bernadette Peters American Actress

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.

Sophocles Greek Poet

There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing.

Karel Reisz Czechoslovakian Director

Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?

Kerry Thornley American Philosopher

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich American Poet