"I was reading the dictionary. I thought
it was a poem about everything."
                     --Steven Wright

Famous Quotations

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I might have. "

Abraham Lincoln

"I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun."

Suzanne Collins

"I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within."

Jalal ad-Din Rumi

"I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best."

Benjamin Disraeli

"I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill."

Thomas A. Edison

"I am so clever that sometimes I do not understand a single word of what I am saying."

Oscar Wilde

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

Florence Nightingale

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

Edgar Allan Poe

"I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky."

Oprah Winfrey

"I can make more generals, but horses cost money."

Abraham Lincoln

"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself."

Anais Nin

"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."

Oscar Wilde

"I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance."

Pablo Casals

"I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’"

Sylvia Plath