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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.
- Garry Marshall, 'Wake Me When It's Funny'
- The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
- Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
- Marston Bates
- The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
- Marquis de Vauvenargues
- Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
- Charles Kuralt
- May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down.
- Sara June Parker
- It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
- Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927)
- I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
- Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)
- First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
- Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471), 1420
- I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- Life is just a bowl of pits.
- Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
- A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.
- Roger Moore (1927 - )
- Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.
- Neil Diamond (1941 - ), Cracklin' Rose
- Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
- I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
- Ann Richards
- The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
- Aung San Suu Kyi (1945 - )
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