Random Quotes

The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.

William O. Douglas American Judge

Don't listen to what the Communists say, but look at what they do.

Nguyen Van Thieu Vietnamese Statesman

I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.

Margaret Spellings American Public Servant

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

Potter Stewart American Judge

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

Anne Sullivan Macy American Educator

It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.

John L. Phillips American Astronaut

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.

Steven Soderbergh American Director

This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.

Earl Derr Biggers American Novelist

Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.

Wade Boggs American Athlete

I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.

Andy Hertzfeld American Inventor

I was asked to be in Vogue but I said no. I didn't want to advertise make-up. I didn't want to be seen as a sex symbol.

Francesca Annis English Actress

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

Gene Fowler American Journalist

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

Robyn Davidson Australian Writer

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

Rainer Maria Rilke German Poet

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.

Lucian Freud British Artist

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Robert Baden-Powell English Soldier

You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it.

Alan Rudolph American Director

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Jeanette Winterson British Novelist

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

Alfred Lord Tennyson English Poet

Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.

Ivan Pavlov Russian Psychologist