Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page

Random Quotations

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

People are fond of spouting out the old clich%uFFFD about how Van Gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime. Somehow his example serves to justify to us, decades later, that there is somehow merit in utter failure. Perhaps, but the man did commit suicide.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 29, 08-22-04
The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.: Jay Leno (1950 - )
We can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.: Claude Bernard (1813 - 1878)
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- More quotations on: [Criticism] [Prejudice]
Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.: Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
- More quotations on: [Television]
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.: Moses Hadas (1900 - 1966)
- More quotations on: [Books]
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
- More quotations on: [Life]
Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.: Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991
- More quotations on: [Love]
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.: Mickey Mouse (1928 - )
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.: Fred Thompson, Speech before the Commonwealth Club of California
- More quotations on: [Government] [Hollywood]
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.: Henrik Tikkanen
- More quotations on: [The Future]
But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- More quotations on: [Imagination]
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- More quotations on: [Marriage]
That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the times on their own terms. They weren't doing it for the money. Their titles weren't fancy. But they changed the course of history and so can you.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
- More quotations on: [America]
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.: Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004
- More quotations on: [Fear]
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- More quotations on: [Silence]
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden: Reading, 1854
- More quotations on: [Books]
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.: Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Hocus Pocus