Random Quotes



I'm not intersted in making an assessment of myself and stripping myself for the general public to view.
- Marlon Brando, about refusing an Oscar on March 28, 1973, because of Hollywood's abuses of the American Indians.


Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
- Patti Smith


Sports Quote

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
- Walt Alston


World War I Quote

"There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect."
- President Woodrow Wilson












U.S. Civil War Quote

"At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth...could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years... If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
- Abraham Lincoln


Beatles Quote

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962


Michael Jackson Quote

I took my baby to the doctor
With a fever, but nothing he found
By the time this hit the street
They said she had a breakdown
- Michael Jackson, Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'



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