QOTD category archive

Ozzie Smith:

We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.

Will Rogers:

Lettin’ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‘n puttin’ it back in.

Michael Gambon, in the voice of Chief Inspector Maigret:

True sophistication is absolute simplicity.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach:

Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.

Michael A. Andrews:

Every self-made man admires his maker.

Kinky Friedman:

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?

Aside:

Not just Texas, folks.

Lew Wallace:

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

Bill Nye:

Look at the facts. We need you to change things, not deny what’s happening.

Reza Aslan:

Religion doesn’t make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

Bob Rae:

The premise of neo-conservatives is that markets left to their own devices will produce the best possible result, and that political interference is not required. This defies the human reality that people are not commodities, and simply refuse to behave as if they were.

Abbie Hoffman:

You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Martin Amis:

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.

Dorothy Sayers:

He (Lord Peter Wimsey, working under cover in advertising–ed.) had never realized the enormous commercial importance of the comparatively poor. Not on the wealthy, who buy only what they want when they want it, was the vast superstructure of industry founded and built up, but on those who, aching for a luxury beyond their reach and for a leisure for ever denied them, could be bullied or wheedled into spending their few hardly won shillings on whatever might give them, if only for a moment, a leisured and luxurious illusion.

Sayers, Dorothy, Murder Must Advertise, in a double volume with The Five Red Herrings
(New York: Doubleday, publication date uncertain), p. 458.

Everett Dirksen:

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

Tim Curry:

The way the world is, I think a silly evening in the theatre is a good thing, to take our minds off terror.

Buckminster Fuller:

We must stop burning up the house to keep the family warm. We have all the technology needed to tap vast cosmic energies of the sun but greedy big business and money drunk government won’t allow it because they haven’t found a way to place a meter on the sun.

Ben Jonson:

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.

Dorothy Sayers, in the voice of Lord Peter Wimsey:

Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There’s yeast in bread, but you can’t make bread with yeast alone.

Sayers, Dorothy, Murder Must Advertise in a double volume with
The Five Red Herrings (New York, Doubleday, year uncertain), p. 366.

Babe Ruth:

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Sean Casey:

Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.