"The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain."
Thomas Paine(01/29/1737 – 06/08/1809)
US author, founding father, patriot
"The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain."
Thomas Paine
"In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of."
Robert Schumann
"I pant for retirement and leisure, but am doomed to inexpressible and almost unsupportable hurry."
Sarah Kemble Siddons
"I do not forget that I am a mechanic. I am proud to own it. Neither do I forget that the apostle Paul was a tentmaker; Socrates was a sculptor; and Archimedes was a mechanic."
Andrew Jackson
"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius."
George Sand
"A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print."
Marguerite Yourcenar
"We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it."
John W. Campbell, Jr.
"We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision."
Byron R. White
"As if we don't have enough violence on television."
Barbara Bush
"The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man."
Bliss Carman
"Is she fat? Her favorite food is seconds."
Joan Rivers
"There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot."
Scott Adams
"Rock'n'roll all goes back to R & B, but to me it's not very relevant. Kraftwerk is much more relevant."
Nick Rhodes
"A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting."
Abraham Maslow
"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?"
Satchel Paige