Famous Quotes

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

- Theodore Roosevelt

If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.

- Payne Stewart

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

- Archimedes

I'm very proud of my daughter. She accomplished a whole lot in the short time that she had here... she was a very wonderful person.

- Cissy Houston

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

- Edgar Allan Poe

I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart's 'The Caine Mutiny,' which was playing in the theater across from the telephone booth where I learned that I'd gotten my first TV job.

- Michael Caine

I'm not afraid of anything. That's just the way I am.

- Paul Walker

I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.

- Caity Lotz

A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

- Michael Kinsley

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

- Abraham Lincoln