Random Quotes

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

Christopher Columbus Italian Explorer

The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

Malcolm Wallop American Politician

There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.

Ruben Blades Panamanian Musician

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

Jacques Lacan French Psychologist

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

Manuel Puig Argentinian Author

They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees.

James Lind Scottish Scientist

It is impossible to have a public trial if you can't guarantee the safety of witnesses, judges or defense counsel.

Richard Goldstone South African Judge

If you mess up your children, nothing else you do really matters.

Jackie Kennedy American First Lady

I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut.

Terence Stamp British Actor

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

Ellen Burstyn American Actress

There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.

E. P. Thompson British Historian

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

Taylor Caldwell American Author

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

George Bernard Shaw Irish Dramatist

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Mark Twain American Author

So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.

Leon Uris American Writer

We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.

David Elliott British Celebrity

I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.

Vivien Leigh English Actress

A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?

Bob Hope American Comedian

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

Tom Skerritt American Actor

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Miguel de Cervantes Spanish Novelist