Quotes of the Day

"In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right."

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."

"Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow."
Lawrence Clark Powell quotes
Lawrence Clark Powell
2009-07-02 11:00:04

"A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years."
Rupert Brooke quotes
Rupert Brooke
2009-07-02 11:00:04

"When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear."
Alfred Eisenstaedt quotes
Alfred Eisenstaedt
2009-07-02 11:00:03

"I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name."
Paula Poundstone quotes
Paula Poundstone
2009-07-02 11:00:03

"Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow."
Lawrence Clark Powell quotes
Lawrence Clark Powell
2009-07-02 11:00:02

"Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed."
Corita Kent quotes
Corita Kent
2009-07-01 11:00:04

"Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet."
Katharine Lee Bates quotes
Katharine Lee Bates
2009-07-01 11:00:04

"A great artist is always before his time or behind it."
George Edward Moore quotes
George Edward Moore
2009-07-01 11:00:03

"Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out."
Adrienne Gusoff quotes
Adrienne Gusoff
2009-07-01 11:00:03

"Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed."
Corita Kent quotes
Corita Kent
2009-07-01 11:00:02

"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty."

"Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same."

"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."

"By the work one knows the workmen."

"We are always the same age inside."
Gertrude Stein quotes
Gertrude Stein
2009-06-30 11:00:04

"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness."
Max Eastman quotes
Max Eastman
2009-06-30 11:00:03

"The sun is new each day."
Heraclitus quotes
Heraclitus
2009-06-30 11:00:03

"I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight."
Rita Rudner quotes
Rita Rudner
2009-06-30 11:00:03

"We are always the same age inside."
Gertrude Stein quotes
Gertrude Stein
2009-06-30 11:00:02

"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend."

"Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there."

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."

"To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage."
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes
Georgia O'Keeffe
2009-06-29 11:00:02

"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."
William Wordsworth quotes
William Wordsworth
2009-06-29 11:00:02

"In life we don?t get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection."

"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."

"Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy."

"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."

"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer."
Jean de La Fontaine quotes
Jean de La Fontaine
2009-06-28 11:00:04

"Paint the essential character of things."
Camille Pissarro quotes
Camille Pissarro
2009-06-28 11:00:04

"I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch."
Ella Maillart quotes
Ella Maillart
2009-06-28 11:00:03

"The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way."

"Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible."

"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius."

"Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest."
Thomas Fuller quotes
Thomas Fuller
2009-06-27 11:00:05

"Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us."
Paul Theroux quotes
Paul Theroux
2009-06-27 11:00:04

"If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life."
Bill Watterson quotes
Bill Watterson
2009-06-27 11:00:04

"Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest."
Thomas Fuller quotes
Thomas Fuller
2009-06-27 11:00:03

"The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders."

"I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need."
Auguste Rodin quotes
Auguste Rodin
2009-06-26 11:00:04

"The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself."
Wallace Stevens quotes
Wallace Stevens
2009-06-26 11:00:03

"Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs."
Alfred Hitchcock quotes
Alfred Hitchcock
2009-06-26 11:00:03

"The more things change, the more they remain... insane."

"Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad."

"The more we do, the more we can do."
William Hazlitt quotes
William Hazlitt
2009-06-25 11:00:09

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
Emile Zola quotes
Emile Zola
2009-06-25 11:00:08

"Earth is a flower and it's pollinating."
Neil Young quotes
Neil Young
2009-06-25 11:00:08

"I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl."
Princess Margaret quotes
Princess Margaret
2009-06-25 11:00:03

"The more we do, the more we can do."
William Hazlitt quotes
William Hazlitt
2009-06-25 11:00:02

"I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her."

"I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking."

"Reality is something you rise above."

"Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it."

"Photography is a major force in explaining man to man."
Edward Steichen quotes
Edward Steichen
2009-06-24 11:00:08

"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."
Robert Green Ingersoll quotes
Robert Green Ingersoll
2009-06-24 11:00:03

"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can."

"Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action."

"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."

"The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly."

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
Francis Bacon quotes
Francis Bacon
2009-06-23 11:00:04

"A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere."
Frank Stella quotes
Frank Stella
2009-06-23 11:00:03

"The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual."
R. Buckminster Fuller quotes
R. Buckminster Fuller
2009-06-23 11:00:03

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
Francis Bacon quotes
Francis Bacon
2009-06-23 11:00:02

"There are more fools in the world than there are people."

"Man is by nature a political animal."
Aristotle quotes
Aristotle
2009-06-22 11:00:04

"Music can change the world because it can change people."
Bono quotes
Bono
2009-06-22 11:00:04

"The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven."
Jean Paul quotes
Jean Paul
2009-06-22 11:00:04

"Man is by nature a political animal."
Aristotle quotes
Aristotle
2009-06-22 11:00:03

"Life is consciousness."

"You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself."

"It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death."

"Great artists suffer for the people."
Marvin Gaye quotes
Marvin Gaye
2009-06-21 11:00:04

"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds."
Aesop quotes
Aesop
2009-06-21 11:00:04

"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."
Plato quotes
Plato
2009-06-21 11:00:03

"I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success."

"Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage."

"The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust."

"Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults."

"Silence is more eloquent than words."
Thomas Carlyle quotes
Thomas Carlyle
2009-06-20 11:00:04

"Silence is more eloquent than words."
Thomas Carlyle quotes
Thomas Carlyle
2009-06-20 11:00:02

"If government were a product, selling it would be illegal."
P. J. O'Rourke quotes
P. J. O'Rourke
2009-06-19 13:00:03

"Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep."
Fran Lebowitz quotes
Fran Lebowitz
2009-06-19 13:00:03

"Electricity is really just organized lightning."
George Carlin quotes
George Carlin
2009-06-19 13:00:03

"What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm."
Rodney Dangerfield quotes
Rodney Dangerfield
2009-06-19 13:00:03

"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations."
Benjamin Disraeli quotes
Benjamin Disraeli
2009-06-19 11:00:04

"Great art picks up where nature ends."
Marc Chagall quotes
Marc Chagall
2009-06-19 11:00:03

"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."
Frank Lloyd Wright quotes
Frank Lloyd Wright
2009-06-19 11:00:03

"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations."
Benjamin Disraeli quotes
Benjamin Disraeli
2009-06-19 11:00:02

"Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows."
Ambrose Bierce quotes
Ambrose Bierce
2009-06-18 11:00:05

"Art must take reality by surprise."
Francoise Sagan quotes
Francoise Sagan
2009-06-18 11:00:04

"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."
Saint Augustine quotes
Saint Augustine
2009-06-18 11:00:04

"Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows."
Ambrose Bierce quotes
Ambrose Bierce
2009-06-18 11:00:03

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
Winston Churchill quotes
Winston Churchill
2009-06-17 11:00:06

"There are no original ideas. There are only original people."
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison quotes
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
2009-06-17 11:00:03

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
Winston Churchill quotes
Winston Churchill
2009-06-17 11:00:03

"People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside."

"Common sense is not so common."
Voltaire quotes
Voltaire
2009-06-16 11:00:05