Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page

Random Quotations

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

I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.: Edward Chilton
As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.: Raymond Lindquist
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.: Anne Frank (1929 - 1945), Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
- More quotations on: [Beauty]
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.: Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971)
- More quotations on: [Politicians]
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980), In Simon Rose, Classic Film Guide (1995)
In a mad world only the mad are sane.: Akira Kurosawa (1910 - 1998)
- More quotations on: [Sanity]
Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.: A. Whitney Brown
You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but that says more about our fellow beings than it does about the birds.: Elizabeth Aston, The Second Mrs. Darcy, 2007
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.: Quentin Crisp
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.: Mignon McLaughlin
- More quotations on: [Marriage]
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- More quotations on: [Facts]
Humankind cannot stand very much reality.: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
- More quotations on: [Reality]
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
O that a man might know the end of this day's business ere it come!: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar, 1599-1600
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.: Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980)
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- More quotations on: [Advice]
Literature is news that stays news.: Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972), ABC of Reading (1934) chapter 8