Today Quotes

"But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play"

Buddy Rich, Musician

"Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

"Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today"

Felix Frankfurter, Judge

"Have we so soon forgotten those four years of terrible carnage, the greatest war of all time; forgotten the millions of men who gave their lives, who made the supreme sacrifice and who today, beneath the soil of France and Belgium, sleep the eternal sleep?"

Frank B. Kellogg, Politician

"While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake"

Henny Youngman, Comedian

"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release"

Roger Corman, Producer

"You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle"

James Cagney, Actor

"America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols"

Bill Shuster, Politician

"I've said this forever - I've always believed the Today show is more than the sum of its parts"

Jeff Zucker, Businessman

"The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that"

Tom Clancy, Novelist

"You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike"

James Cagney, Actor

"On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech"

Ed Gillespie, Politician

"I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party"

Ed Gillespie, Politician

"For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price - literally - at the pump and in their heating bills"

Chris Chocola, Politician

"Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate"

Jeffrey Archer, Politician

"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow"

Melody Beattie, Writer

"When I go in front of an audience, I'll admit I sometimes have a certain amount of fear in me, because maybe the people are not going to accept what I'm doing today. That's bad for any artist, especially if what you're doing is not in line with what's happening today"

Jimmy Rushing, Musician

"Men, today we die a little"

Emil Zatopek, Athlete

"Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners"

E. Joseph Cossman, Businessman

"Hard work does pay, and you just have to continue to work, and you got two guys, when you're talking about Gary and myself, we have a God-given talent, but we worked at it and we're happy to be where we are today"

Jason Kidd, Athlete

"Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom"

Jim DeMint, Politician

"Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie"

Wim Wenders, Director

"There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!"

Naomi Watts, Actress

"But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today"

James MacArthur, Actor

"One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears"

Michael Flanders, Actor

"Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's more!"

Thomas Pynchon, Writer

"Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate"

Alexis Herman, Public Servant

"Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster"

Andy Grove, Businessman

"I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor"

John Poindexter, Public Servant

"I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"But I felt that most of us in the world today gave priority to our personal interests"

Paul Hoffman, Celebrity

"Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature"

Omar Bongo, Statesman

"Georgia is in an enviable position today, but we can't rest on our laurels"

Roy Barnes, Politician

"The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today"

Frederick Soddy, Scientist

"Well, it's a day-to-day thing. I don't feel comfortable in my body today at all. Any woman will tell you she has her good and bad days and today I did not feel like I looked my best or felt radiant inside or outside"

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Model

"I'm not so sure that younger people today really appreciate the enormous bravery that went into the creation and production of that film, or how important a film at the time it really was"

Rod Steiger, Actor

"Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today"

Randy Neugebauer, Politician

"The people who ask me for my autograph are the people who've put me here today, and you can't afford to forget that"

Katie Price, Model

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