Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page

Random Quotations

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

Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?: Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.: Philip Guedalla (1889 - 1944)
See things as they are and write about them. Don’t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-25-06
- More quotations on: [Writing]
One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.: Jim Bishop, New York Journal-American, March 14, 1959
- More quotations on: [The Future]
I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- More quotations on: [Death]
The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.: Michael Friedman
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.: Mary Hemingway
- More quotations on: [Worries]
Love can be sordid only if you work at it.: Brooke McEldowney, 9 Chickweed Lane, 05-10-2006
To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.: Cynthia Ozick
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.: Alice Walker (1944 - ), O Magazine, May 2003
- More quotations on: [Parents]
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.: John Viscount Morley
Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night.": Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
- More quotations on: [Night]
There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?: Dick Cavett (1936 - )
Good habits result from resisting temptation.: Ancient Proverb
- More quotations on: [Habits] [Proverbs] [Temptation]
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.: Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, 'A Woman of Independent Means'
- More quotations on: [Time]
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- More quotations on: [Success] [Perseverance]
Whatever you are, be a good one.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)