Great Quotations

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Tom Waits, Blood Money interviews


I like a beautiful song that tells you terrible things. We all like bad news out of a pretty mouth.

Alexander Hamilton


Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human


People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.

Mignon McLaughlin


If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac


In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

E. B. White


I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they happen to strike me.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park


In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.

Daniel Defoe


Pride the first peer and president of hell.

Rainer Maria Rilke


This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give, the more they possess.

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