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Ten Random Quotes

"I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like."
Jerry Garcia

"There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them."
Elie Wiesel

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
P. J. O'Rourke

"In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla."
Fanny Burney

"I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work."
Thomas A. Edison

"I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren."
Astrid Lindgren

"We are not the sum of our possessions."
George H. W. Bush

"Illegal drugs imprison drug takers within sometimes violent and murderous obsessions. Drugs are designed to alter our moral sensibilities, to dull our sense of duty and integrity. Addictive drugs are wrong because they enslave and eventually destroy the body."
Steve Forbes

"A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling."
Otto von Bismarck

"Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent."
Frantz Fanon

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