Today Quotes

"My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today"

"So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

"We only had enough money really to cut 10 things and be in there for a month because it's expensive, you know. And, singer/songwriters, today are lucky if they can get a deal, you know. So, we actually worked so fast that we really cut 20 things"

Graham Nash, Musician

"Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect"

Hannes Alfven, Scientist

"Now, Marlon and I - for some reason, even today - even today, we can't say two words to each other. We really can't talk to each other. You know, I say to him - Marlon can't talk. I mean, he'd talk to you. But he can't talk"

Anthony Quinn, Actor

"I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing"

Ernie Harwell, Celebrity

"So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today"

Mika Waltari, Author

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

Felix Frankfurter, Judge

"I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today"

Billie Joe Armstrong, Musician

"And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today"

John Hoeven, Politician

"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

"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

"Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion"

Vinton Cerf, Inventor

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

Henny Youngman, Comedian

"Men, today we die a little"

Emil Zatopek, Athlete

"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

"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

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

James MacArthur, 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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave"

Gerald R. Ford, President

"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

"The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people"

Walter Winchell, Journalist

"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

"Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country"

Norman Cousins, Author

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

E. Joseph Cossman, Businessman

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

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