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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
- Doctor Who
- I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.
- Walt Disney (1901 - 1966)
- The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- History never looks like history when you are living through it.
- John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002), quoted by Bill Moyers
- The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
- Paula Poundstone
- Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
- Dinah Shore (1917 - 1994)
- Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
- Comte de Buffon (1707 - 1788)
- The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
- A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
- You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.
- Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
- The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
- Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956)
- We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?
- Betty White, Mark Twain Prize, 2010
- Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.
- Cindy Chupack, Sex and the City, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, 2000
- California is a fine place to live--if you happen to be an orange.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
- Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
- Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
- Gloria Swanson (1899 - 1983)
- It is hard work, but there is happiness in it.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- You know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.
- Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
- The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.
- A. L. Kitselman
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