Category: Quotes (Page 1 of 3)

“In a dark time, the eye begins to see.”

— Theodore Roethke

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”

Walter Cronkite

“Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.”

John Muir

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

– Orson Welles

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House – with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

– John F. Kennedy

When I stopped doing cocaine, it was amazing to me that I didn’t need to carry a gun anymore. I just didn’t need one!

— Joe Walsh of The Eagles to GQ

“We are all horrible and wonderful and figuring it out.”

— Harris Wittels

“I just want to thank my family and friends and God and most of all, Dr Pepper.”

— Jennifer Stathopoulos

“Character does count. For too long we have gotten by in a society that says the only thing right is to get by and the only thing wrong is to get caught. Character is doing what’s right when nobody is looking.”

—Representative J.C Watts, 1994 Republican Convention

“May you live in interesting times.”

— Old Chinese curse