Random Quotes

Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you.

El Cordobes Spanish Athlete

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

Auguste Renoir French Artist

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

Ken Kesey American Author

I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.

Norman Cook British Musician

I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.

Gabriel Byrne Irish Actor

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician

In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.

Roy Hattersley British Statesman

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

Meryl Streep American Actress

The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.

Jacques Derrida French Philosopher

Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties.

Peter R. Grant American Scientist

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

Thomas Aquinas Italian Theologian

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.

Don Bluth American Artist

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

Cecil Beaton English Photographer

Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.

Sonny Liston American Athlete

In general, I do not agree with spying against one's country.

Melita Norwood British Criminal

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

Theodore Parker American Theologian

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

Iris Chang Chinese Historian

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

Jim Elliot American Clergyman

Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.

Charles Simmons

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

John le Carre English Writer