Random Quotes

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

William Arthur Ward American Writer

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

Jacques Barzun American Educator

You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.

Terry Southern American Writer

We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.

Marty Meehan American Politician

I have, on the other hand, felt ill will from various people in the industry and the press.

Rob Lowe American Actor

When you have kids, it limits you. That was a choice I made.

Alison Moyet British Musician

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

John Stuart Mill English Philosopher

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

George Santayana American Philosopher

The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness.

John C. Danforth American Politician

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Ambrose Bierce American Journalist

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.

Jean M. Auel American Writer

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

Brian Eno British Musician

You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good.

Steve Lacy American Musician

Actually, the Department of Transport were at one stage going to sack me.

David Prowse British Actor

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau French Philosopher

George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman.

Donella Meadows American Environmentalist

The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.

Alex Van Halen American Musician

To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That's a very profound outlook on it.

Linda Blair American Actress

And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.

Alphonso Jackson American Public Servant

I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.

Mitch Hedberg American Comedian