Source of Bill Gates quote? "If I was down to my last dollar, I'd spend it on public relations." It feels like every article about PR uses this quotation but searching turns up no original article or speech. Alternate version subs in "PR" for "public relations." Please help!
posted on Oct 15, 2008 - 4 answers

Please help translate this quote to Latin: "We are not what we dream, we are what we do." [more inside]
posted on Oct 9, 2008 - 22 answers

I am going the Nike+ route and am about to order an iPod Nano. I want an inspiring but not cheesy quotation engraved on the back. Ideas? [more inside]
posted on Oct 8, 2008 - 30 answers

Quotefilter: Who said something along the lines of "The way to know a people is through its artists"? [more inside]
posted on Sep 28, 2008 - 2 answers

Looking for a quote where a rock star(?) says that he became a musician because he couldn't do anything else. Or wasn't good at anything else. Or had no other option/choice. Or something to that effect. Help?
posted on Sep 9, 2008 - 22 answers

Can anyone help me track down this Cicero quote? I believe it is in a letter, to his son (?), saying something along the lines of: science is great and all, but why study the course of the stars when you don't know what's in your own soul first? [more inside]
posted on Sep 7, 2008 - 5 answers

Searching for something Bill Clinton once said, when he was on Oprah. Help me find this quote! [more inside]
posted on Sep 4, 2008 - 6 answers

What is the Richard Pryor quote about everybody screwing each other till we're all the same shade of light brown?
posted on Aug 24, 2008 - 8 answers

Something about a wise man and fools? [more inside]
posted on Aug 20, 2008 - 6 answers

Please help me find a photography related quote! [more inside]
posted on Aug 5, 2008 - 2 answers

Help me identify the author of this quote: "It is not hatred that is wrong; it is hating the wrong thing that is wrong. It is not anger that is wrong; it is being angry at the wrong thing that is wrong. Tell me your hatred and I'll tell you your character." I've been stumped by someone in my house. :) Thanks!
posted on Aug 3, 2008 - 3 answers

Television show, movie, cartoon, what was it that featured a character saying, "pour vous," in this particular way? [more inside]
posted on Jul 2, 2008 - 9 answers

Window cleaning question: how much is reasonable to pay for gutter, soffit and window cleaning for a 3-bedroom Victorian house (UK)? [more inside]
posted on Jun 27, 2008 - 4 answers

In the Art of Noise song "Instruments of Darkness" (from the In Visible Silence CD, not the various remixes), there is a sample of a voice saying "Your agony must endure forever". This has been attributed to Neil Kinnock, a British politician. Does anyone know what that statement was in reference to and the text of the full speech or comment?
posted on May 26, 2008 - 3 answers

People often say: "The best way to make a small fortune in [insert industry here] is to start with a large one" Who first came up with this joke, and what industry was the joke originally about?
posted on May 16, 2008 - 16 answers

I'm perplexed by a quote in the signature line of an e-mail that I received this morning: "Bridges prohibit the progress they promote." [more inside]
posted on May 12, 2008 - 23 answers

Quotation-filter. I'm trying to remember how a quotation went concerning Richard Feynman's lectures on physics. [more inside]
posted on May 2, 2008 - 5 answers

In a very old episode (The Last Temptation of Homer), Milhouse watches Bart be Bart and mourns, I fear to watch, yet I cannot turn away. [more inside]
posted on Apr 28, 2008 - 11 answers

What is the original origin and exact wording of the quote that goes to the effect: "If you have to eat a bullfrog, don't look at it for too long. If you have to eat two bullfrogs, eat the biggest/ugliest one first"? [more inside]
posted on Apr 27, 2008 - 3 answers

I'm trying to rember a quote from a science or public radio show (maybe even TED) and where it came from "X is a story we tell ourselves." Where X is what the story is about. I think X might have been memory, but I'm not sure.
posted on Mar 7, 2008 - 15 answers

Please help me reference a literary quote? [more inside]
posted on Mar 4, 2008 - 6 answers

When I was an undergrad (the first time) I saw a quote on the door of one of my music professor's doors. The subject had to do with practicing and I swear it used the phrase "On Tackling the Beast". I think the quote was from a book but I can't remember. Sound familiar to anyone?
posted on Feb 29, 2008 - 5 answers

Quote filter: Who was it that said something to the effect of "you can tell by the way he walks that he was loved as a child" of a naked chap? [more inside]
posted on Feb 13, 2008 - 0 answers

I need a reputable source for this quote (or something similar): "The only unnatural act is the one that cannot be performed." Any ideas? [more inside]
posted on Jan 28, 2008 - 5 answers

What is the origin of the phrase "The Cossacks work for the Czar"? This guy is fond of the phrase, which seems to mean "there's no point blaming minor political functionaries - they're working on orders, explicit or implied, from the top". It's obviously a quote. But from whom?
posted on Jan 19, 2008 - 14 answers

JG Ballard said something about our pornography-addicted culture being due to a disconnect with nature, but I don't have an exact quote. So with hat in hand, I appeal to the hive mind. [more inside]
posted on Jan 18, 2008 - 2 answers

Looking for a (essay, book) source for the quote, "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend" by Albert Camus. [more inside]
posted on Jan 10, 2008 - 14 answers

Looking for the source of a quote that goes something like "i always knew the right thing to do. without fail, i always knew. but i never did it. because it was too damn hard." [more inside]
posted on Jan 1, 2008 - 6 answers

Did Ferdinand Magellan really say this? “The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow of the earth on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.” [more inside]
posted on Dec 30, 2007 - 14 answers

What's the source of, "It's not what you say, it's how you say it"? [more inside]
posted on Dec 11, 2007 - 10 answers

Looking for some source of a quote about, or the general idea that, we are all slowly dying, but some are closer than others. [more inside]
posted on Nov 20, 2007 - 12 answers

Does anyone know the origin of the phrase "not just another pretty face"? [more inside]
posted on Nov 3, 2007 - 5 answers

I'm pretty sure I remember reading an online interview with Alan Keyes in which he said something like "Computer Science has spent the last fifty years stewing in its own recycled bullshit." However, I'm having trouble finding a cite. Anyone got one? I'd like to quote it in a talk, but I want to make sure I've got it right.
posted on Nov 2, 2007 - 2 answers

wanted: help with the source of and exact wording for a quote. [more inside]
posted on Oct 28, 2007 - 3 answers

Help me find the source of a quote! [more inside]
posted on Oct 26, 2007 - 10 answers

What single quote is the best introduction (or accurately encapsulates) a philosophy, belief or conviction that you hold? Or alternately, a quote that describes something in a way that gives you a deeper understanding of a particular perspective that you may or may not endorse. [more inside]
posted on Sep 26, 2007 - 95 answers

Hello, a while ago I heard a quote by Eleanor Roosevelt but since then I haven't been able to find it anywhere. It was along the lines of your mind growing with your experiences and age. The quote expresses her initial worry when as a late teenager she assumed her mind would maintain the same (limited) mindset, paradigm, mentality even into her adult, aged years. If I remember correctly the quote is short, being only a line or two. Thank you so much, this quote is very important to me!
posted on Sep 21, 2007 - 9 answers

I've seen this quote, "Have faith in the force of right, not in the right of force", several times and have had no luck finding out who's quote it is...Help me hive!
posted on Sep 21, 2007 - 6 answers

Where did I hear it? I'm thinking of a quote that goes along the lines of "I'd rather die then be ordinary" or maybe "Her greatest fear was the she would be unremarkable". Was it a book, a movie, a song? I'm sure there are more than a few origins for these, can you help me out?
posted on Sep 21, 2007 - 21 answers

Who said, "Great art doesn't offer answers; it asks questions," or some such? [more inside]
posted on Sep 18, 2007 - 7 answers

Movers flat rate, or per hour? I asked for a quote on citimove.com All the flat rates are get are ridiculously high. I also got some quotes of movers that charge per hour. If those same rates were applied, it seems that the flat rate movers would spend 10 hours moving the stuff in my 1 bedroom, which will be already packed, for a distance of ten miles. That is impossible!?!?! Is there a catch, hidden charges, or something? Because the per hour movers seem much cheaper than the flat raters. I don't want to get burned.
posted on Sep 18, 2007 - 17 answers

Looking for a quote, possibly from Winston Churchill, along the lines of "Don't panic, live life as you have been, etc. etc." May have been in reference to severe bombing in London during WWII (if it was indeed Churchill).
posted on Aug 29, 2007 - 9 answers

I want a quote to go on my phone case. 2 lines. 21 characters per line. Preferable inspirational, possibly latin. [more inside]
posted on Aug 27, 2007 - 21 answers

Looking for the origin of a quote referenced by Dennis Covington in Salvation on Sand Mountain as being something he "read somewhere": "Mystery...is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend." [more inside]
posted on Aug 5, 2007 - 2 answers

I'm designing a funeral handout for a young woman who has died suddenly. Help me come up with ideas for a poem or verse or quote or something to include. [more inside]
posted on Aug 3, 2007 - 24 answers

Epigraph-filter: I need a great quote that cogently encapsulates the following: why, in a stark and rational universe, should one concern oneself foremost with the welfare of others?
posted on Jul 30, 2007 - 21 answers

Help me with a German sentence (quote?). German speakers: is the following sentence a quote from German literature? It's in reference to a picture of a Jewish headstone with pebbles on it. "Wieviel Wissen wird unter diesen Steinen liegen" Just wondering if this is a literary quote, or merely the musings of the commentor.
posted on Jul 23, 2007 - 4 answers

Please help me remember a quote... it's about the need to be ordered in parts of one's life, so one can be spontaneous in the rest... [more inside]
posted on Jul 15, 2007 - 4 answers

Quotefilter: Need both source and text from a historical story I once read for a sermon/homily this weekend. The story concerned a Native American who was shown a church by a missionary, and the Native American responded to the effect of "why do you keep God in a building?" That's all of the detail I have, and my Google-fu is failing me on this one ....
posted on Jul 12, 2007 - 3 answers

What is the origin of the phrase "we are all [blank] now"? The earliest 'famous' usage I'm aware of is Nixon's "we are all Keynesians now," but I don't know if that was really where it started.
posted on Jun 29, 2007 - 7 answers