Interesting Quotes By Notable Rhode Islanders

"Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, 

but it won't keep the wise from trying." 

 ~  Harry Anderson, actor

"Life has all sorts of hills and valleys,

and sometimes you don't end up doing

what you had your heart set out on,

but sometimes that's even better!"

~  Ruth Buzzi, actress

"In society, one doesn't tell the truth,

one tells the exact opposite."

~  Nelson Eddy, musician

"A year or so ago, I went through 

all the people in my life and asked 

myself: Does this person inspire me, 

genuinely love me, and support me 

unconditionally? I wanted nothing

but positive influences in my life."

~  Mena Suvari, actress

"I don't care what you say about me,

as long as you say something about me,

and as long as you spell my name right."

~  George M. Cohan, actor

"Before you can make good music, you just have to

shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say."

~  Kristin Hersh, musician

"Toil without song is like a weary

 journey without an end."

~  H. P. Lovecraft, writer

"I don't know why I started writing.

I don't know why anybody does 

it. Maybe they're bored, or 

failures at something else."

~  Cormac McCarthy, writer

"I can't say that I make anything up.

I think of myself as a collage artist.

I'm cutting and pasting memories 

of my life. And I say, I have to live 

a life in order to tell a life."

~  Spalding Gray, actor

"What a business is this of a portrait 

painter! You bring him a potato and 

expect he will paint you a peach."

~  Gilbert Stuart, artist

"America must raise an empire of permanent

duration, supported upon the grand 

pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, 

encouraged by the smiles of Justice and 

defended by her own patriotic sons."

~  Nathanael Greene, army general

"Sometimes it is necessary to 

re-teach a thing its loveliness."

~  Galway Kinnell, poet