Everything Quotes

"Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose"

William Cowper, Poet

"We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false"

William J. Casey, Director

"When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive, they took all the computers, all the literature, and loaded everything into a big white truck and left"

Sherman Austin

"I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know"

James Brown, Musician

"Well, one thing that has happened is they have had a presidential election in Egypt which has represented progress. Now, we were not happy with everything that happened with the parliamentary elections, and it was not exactly a perfect presidential election in Egypt"

Roger Wicker, Politician

"Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real"

Federico Fellini, Director

"Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation"

Christian Lacroix, Designer

"My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes"

Bram Cohen, Scientist

"Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult"

Anna Paquin, Actress

"Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything"

Ernest Gaines, Writer

"I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That's when all the heads of government should meet. I think everybody would fall in love"

Billy Strayhorn, Composer

"Of course, the idea of a six months' holiday is enough to make anyone laugh at anything, but I find that besides that I was a good deal harassed and run down, and I am glad to cut off from everything and start fresh. I feel miserably selfish about it all the time"

Richard H. Davis

"It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle"

Matt Dillon, Actor

"I recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30's and my first impressions of everything, all of which I have to deal with and which gets mixed up in my work and probably gets mixed up in everybody else's work too"

Donald Judd, Artist

"The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals"

John Hartford, Musician

"The dream factory of that time was much simpler. As media outlets grew, everything became so complicated"

Janet Leigh, Actress

"Having said that, I'm a huge Jack Nicholson fan because he just goes nuts in everything he does. Having Jack in his heyday would also be a dream come true"

Paul Kane, Writer

"The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten"

Warren Cuccurullo, Musician

"I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. I'm always itching to get back in the car. It's going to get harder, so I've got to make sure that I'm doing everything I possibly can do to make sure I can start next season how I ended this season"

Dan Wheldon, Celebrity

"For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything"

Kenneth Noland, Artist

"Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers work together toward the same goal, and everyone chimes in on everything"

Trey Anastasio, Musician

"In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation"

Guy Debord, Writer

"I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash"

Brenda Lee, Musician

"Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union"

Eduard Shevardnadze, Politician

"Well, you know, I have always had an issue with the whole weight thing with people in general because I happen to love how big women look. I mean, it's all a perspective. It's all an opinion, and I think sort of the Rubenesque, voluptuous body is a lot sexier than the boney bag of bones with fake everything"

Debi Mazar, Actress

"Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell"

Dave Matthews, Musician

"Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy"

Dan Gable, Athlete

"When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now"

Dan Hawkins, Musician

"On both of my flights, everything went very well"

Sally Ride, Astronaut

"I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success"

Greg Akcelrod, Athlete

"The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool"

Jerome Lawrence, Playwright

"There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing"

Giacomo Leopardi, Poet

"I don't want to be Kato, the trial guy. It's like everything I do is under a microscope"

Kato Kaelin, Celebrity

"To him who is in fear everything rustles"

Sophocles, Author

"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

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