Random Quotes

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

Reggie Jackson American Athlete

I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

Anna Quindlen American Journalist

But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.

Brent Scowcroft American Public Servant

If I have a question about women and their behavior or attitudes, I always double check things with Lucy.

Rob Walton Canadian Athlete

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Miguel de Cervantes Spanish Novelist

The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.

Georg Brandes Danish Critic

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Rabindranath Tagore Indian Poet

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

Anne Sullivan Macy American Educator

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.

Alison Lohman American Actress

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante Cuban Novelist

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

Leon Kass American Educator

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

Karl Liebknecht German Politician

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

Arthur Miller American Playwright

I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.

Alexander Payne American Director

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

Oscar Wilde Irish Dramatist

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

Winona Ryder American Actress

I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair.

Joel Siegel American Critic

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Helen Keller American Author

There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.

Marguerite Moreau American Actress

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

Ulysses S. Grant American President