var numOfQuotes = 31 var quote = new Array(numOfQuotes + 1) quote[0] = "There are all manner of lesser imps and demons, Pete, but the great Satan hisself is red, scaley, has a bifurcated tail and carries a hayfork.
- Ulysses Everett McGill" quote[1] = "If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
- Lord Byron" quote[2] = "There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
- Mark Twian" quote[3] = "It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.
- Sinclair Lewis" quote[4] = "I wish some gigantic, surly, stone-fisted, Soap Mahoney-type guy went wandering around the world smashing every clock in sight till there weren't any more and people got so confused about when to go to the mill or school or church that they gave up and did something interesting instead.
- David James Duncan" quote[5] = "From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill" quote[6] = "You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
- Jim Bouton, Ball Four, 1970" quote[7] = "We want happy paintings. Happy paintings. If you want sad things, watch the news.
- Bob Ross" quote[8] = "I spent the morning putting in a comma, and the afternoon taking it out.
- Oscar Wilde" quote[9] = "My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around!
- Dr. Seuss" quote[10] = "The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
- Galileo" quote[11] = "Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.
- Robert Fulghum" quote[12] = "Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.
- Sherman Alexie, Reservation Blues" quote[13] = "We had never been poor, because those who live from the land are never really poor...
- Fabiola Cabeza de Baca, We Fed Them Cactus" quote[14] = "But I kept on: the Indians had no word for trespassing, so the trespasses of their neighbors needed no forgiving.
- Gus, The River Why" quote[15] = "We want a language of that different yield. A yield as rich as the harvests of earth, a yield that returns us to our own sacredness, to a self-love and respect that will carry out to others.
- Linda Hogan, Dwellings" quote[16] = "The breeze was very faint, and it bore the scent of earth and grain; and for a moment everything was all right with him. He was at home.
- N. Scott Momaday, House Made Of Dawn" quote[17] = "And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
- Sylvia Plath" quote[18] = "Eastward I go only by force; westward I go free
- Henry David Thoreau" quote[19] = "Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness
- John Muir" quote[20] = "the love of possessions is a disease among them
- Sitting Bull" quote[21] = "I learned to hate from a strip mine,
love from a strip bar
Honesty and charity
I stole those from a tip jar
- Roger Clyne" quote[22] = "If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good
- Dr. Seuss" quote[23] = "...When the spring is in the air
And I'm acting like a child again
And frankly I don't care
But I found these purple flowers
To weave into your hair
And of course I'd want to marry you
And travel off somewhere
- David Wilcox" quote[24] = "And though I know you are guilty of nothing
Except for a strong will to live in the light
You throw your seeds on the wind like a thistle
Good night, Box Elder, good night
- L.J. Booth" quote[25] = "This is where the trail just disappears
This is where their story ends
No one knows where they went from here
- L.J. Booth" quote[26] = "When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy’s been swinging them.
But swinging doesn’t bend them down to stay.
- Robert Frost" quote[27] = "Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.
- Thomas Paine" quote[28] = "Well, God bless us fools
For stumbling all over your rules
and falling off our bar stools
- Roger Clyne" quote[29] = "They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.
-James G. Watt, Newsweek, 8 March 1982" quote[30] = "We're going to talk poetry, ours mostly, and open beers one after another until we're a little drunk and a little wiser than the chairs we're sitting on.
- Gary Soto" quote[31] = "There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
- Winston Churchill" function rndInteger() { var rndNumber = -1 while (rndNumber <0 || rndNumber > numOfQuotes || isNaN(rndNumber)) { rndNumber = parseInt(Math.random() * (numOfQuotes + 1)) } return rndNumber } indxOfQuote = rndInteger() strQuote = quote[indxOfQuote] document.write(strQuote)