Random Quotations

The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below .

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
[info][add][mail]
Michael Crichton (1942 - 2008), Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003
Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.
[info][add][mail]
John Le Carre (1931 - ), Magnus Pym in "A Perfect Spy"
To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it.
[info][add][mail]
Jim Beggs
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
[info][add][mail]
Jean Kerr
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
[info][add][mail]
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
A way to a man's heart is through his stomach, that shit true as gold. You put some love in your food and a fool can taste it.
[info][add][mail]
Raelle Tucker, True Blood, Cold Ground, 2008
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
[info][add][mail]
Dianne Houston, Take The Lead, 2006
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
[info][add][mail]
R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983), Interview, April 30, 1978
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
[info][add][mail]
Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
[info][add][mail]
Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), "Of Beauty"
Politics is applesauce.
[info][add][mail]
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship.
[info][add][mail]
Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
[info][add][mail]
Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), As quoted in The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell by Elizabeth Salter, 1967
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
[info][add][mail]
Danny Kaye (1913 - 1987)
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
[info][add][mail]
Bible, Old Testament
Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
[info][add][mail]
Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Interview, Mcsweeneys.net
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
[info][add][mail]
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.
[info][add][mail]
L. M. Boyd
It's about what YOU are going to do with the short time you have left on this earth.
[info][add][mail]
Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 23, 08-22-04
Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
[info][add][mail]
David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931)
from these collections:

MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

Select one or more collections and press the button above to get a new set of random quotations. You can also choose a different number of quotations. View the Descriptions of the Collections for more details.