Category: Quotes of the day

J(ohn) Edgar Hoover

“Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth … Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals …

Rabbi Abraham Heschel

“Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.” Rabbi Abraham Heschel quotes

Louis Nizer

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them. Louis Nizer quotes

Rex Harrison

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what’s wrong with it. Rex Harrison quotes

Barry J. Farber

Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it. Barry J. Farber quotes

J. Ogden Armour

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it. J. Ogden Armour quotes

Gail Godwin

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. Gail Godwin quotes

Russell Crowe

I like villains because there’s something so attractive about a committed person — they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They’re motivated. …

Robert Macleod

The creator is both detached and committed, free and yet ensnared, concerned but not too much so. If motivation is too strong the person is …