Random Quotes

Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.

Leo Szilard American Scientist

Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must be made which bear upon the well being and the fate of all of Germany.

Hjalmar Schacht German Economist

I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do.

Geoffrey Rush Australian Actor

We put out press releases to tell people what had happened to me and that I had a large weight gain but a lot of people still didn't know. The ones that didn't know were floored. That was a real humbling experience for me.

Lou Gramm American Musician

Jack Lambert is mean and relentless wherever he goes, on and off the field! I do remember many times he would chase me in practice but no way would I let him catch me.

Franco Harris American Athlete

Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them.

Ron Chernow American Author

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

John Berger English Artist

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

Ludwig von Mises Austrian Economist

In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this purpose they have taken every opportunity to make use of pressures from abroad.

Kenzaburo Oe Japanese Writer

Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.

Howard Schultz American Businessman

Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with just a new set of people every few years and it gets boring.

Steven Soderbergh American Director

It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.

John H. Johnson American Businessman

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

Albert Finney British Actor

My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all.

Claudia Black Australian Actress

When I left the band I said Look, I am ready to move on. I was interested in playing with some of the other people that I had bee a studio musician with.

John Sebastian American Musician

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

Ingrid Bergman Swedish Actress

The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.

Bianca Jagger Nicaraguan Celebrity

I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer.

Fred Savage American Actor

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Milton Friedman American Economist

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.

Arne Jacobsen Danish Architect