Quotes · Skopia

150 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Medium·Newspaper✕clear

Some people think football is a matter of life and death... I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

1973

★ 0.9

I love you... That is what they were all saying down their phones, from the hijacked planes and the burning towers. There is only love, and then oblivion. Love was all they had to set against the hatred of their murderers.

2001

★ 0.9

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

David Lloyd George

Observer · 1933

★ 1.0

Interview · Newspaper

The nice guys are all over there, in seventh place.

1946

★ 1.0

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

The Guardian · 1988

★ 1.0

Obituary · Newspaper

Never believe governments, not any of them, not a word they say; keep an untrusting eye on all they do.

Martha Gellhorn

1998

★ 1.0

Mother Nature always bats last and she always bats 1000.

The New York Times · 2010

★ 1.0

Article · Newspaper

To acquiesce in despair is the very way to make despairing forecasts come true.

Bertrand Russell

1951

★ 1.1

If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

Albert Einstein

1954

★ 1.1

Interview · Newspaper

Everyone repeats themselves.

Rachel Whiteread

2012

★ 1.1

Interview · Newspaper

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

Benito Mussolini

The New York Times · 1928

★ 1.2

Essay · Newspaper

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

1962

★ 1.2

I've often fantasized I would get a lot of writing done if I were put in prison for a minor crime. Three to six months.

2013

★ 1.2

Morning reading-like morning newspapers, morning sex, morning lie-ins, and morning running-is the luxury of childless people.

2016

★ 1.2

Obituary · Newspaper

I learned precision of language from Japanese poetry.

★ 1.2

With the right footwear one can rule the world.

1980

★ 1.3

Interview · Newspaper

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?

2013

★ 1.3

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America—not the battlefields of Vietnam.

Marshall McLuhan

1975

★ 1.7

The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it has also become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it.

Aharon Appelfeld

1986

★ 1.7

Obiturary · Newspaper

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

The New York Times

★ 1.7

From a very early age, I had imbibed the opinion, that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.

William Cobbett

1832

★ 1.8

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides!

1958

★ 1.8

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.

J. William Fulbright

Observer · 1958

★ 1.8

Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

David Ormsby Gore

The New York Times · 1962

★ 1.8

Faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill for: there is all the difference in the world.

1989

★ 1.8

The only ones who remember when you came in second are your wife and your dog.

1994

★ 1.8

Interview · Newspaper

You should feel slightly incompetent at what you're trying to do. The minute you start to feel like an expert, what you really are is a hack.

Michael Cunningham

2014

★ 1.8

Essay · Newspaper

Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.

William Lloyd Garrison

To the Public · 1831

★ 1.9

Essay · Newspaper

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.

1917

★ 1.9

Article · Newspaper

No one in this world, so far as I know...has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

1926

★ 1.9

We hear war called murder. It is not: it is suicide.

Ramsay MacDonald

1930

★ 1.9

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Stubby Currence

1935

★ 1.9

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

Paul Ralph Ehrlich

1971

★ 1.9

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

Shirley Williams

1981

★ 1.9

Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.

1987

★ 1.9

It is a terrible shame for me-I came back, still alive, without having won the war.

1997

★ 1.9

Dissertation · Newspaper

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

1765

★ 1.9

Essay · Newspaper

Metaphysicians and politicians may dispute forever, but they will never find any other moral principle or foundation of rule or obedience, than the consent of governors and governed.

1775

★ 1.9

I am in earnest-I will not equivocate-I will not excuse-I will not retreat a single inch-and I will be heard!

William Lloyd Garrison

The Liberator · 1831

★ 1.9

Interview · Newspaper

The war has used up words.

1915

★ 1.9

Interview · Newspaper

For most of my life I refused to work at any problem unless its solution seemed to be capable of being put to commercial use.

1917

★ 1.9

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Theodore Roosevelt

1918

★ 1.9

Speech · Newspaper

The illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

1956

★ 1.9

If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man.

Observer · 1957

★ 1.9

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

Observer · 1958

★ 1.9

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

Stanley Kubrick

1963

★ 1.9

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

1977

★ 1.9

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Barbara Tuchman

1980

★ 1.9

Interview · Newspaper

Best advice I ever got was an old friend mine, a black friend, who said you have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.

1984

★ 1.9

Interview · Newspaper

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.

1985

★ 1.9

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

The Daily Telegraph · 1988

★ 1.9

Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.

1989

★ 1.9

Interview · Newspaper

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

1993

★ 1.9

Only the paranoid survive.

1994

★ 1.9

I'm not going to make any compromise whatsoever.

2001

★ 1.9

An accident of timing makes the book in question indelible.

Colson Whitehead

2005

★ 1.9

Interview · Newspaper

My work is completed by the viewer.

2008

★ 1.9

Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.

Jeanette Winterson

2010

★ 1.9

Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.

2012

★ 1.9

Writing saved my life.

2016

★ 1.9

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