anything quotes

From all I can learn, he'sgot no business, no income, and no connection worth speaking of; but then, I know nothingnobody tells me anything.

-John Galsworthy
  The Man of Property, pt.1, ch.1.

I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man Who could ask for anything more.

- Ira originally Israel Gershowitz Gershwin
  'I Got Music', featured in the film Girl Crazy (music by George Gershwin).

I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain.We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now fora long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and thethings that were glorious had no gloryand the sacrifices were like the stock-yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

- Ernest Millar Hemingway
  Frederic Henry.  A Farewell to  Arms, ch.27.

As Einstein once said, ordinary life in an ordinary day in the modern world is a dreary business. I mean dreary. People will do anything just to escape this dreariness.

- Samuel Pepys
  Interview in Esquire, Dec.

If our people can build Angkor Wat they can do anything.

-Pol Pot real name Saloth Sar
  Quoted by Dennis Bloodworth in the Observer, 20 Jan1980.

   In olden days a glimpse of stocking Was looked on as something shocking. But now,God knows, Anything goes.

- Cole Porter
  'Anything Goes', from the show Anything Goes.

The general public has long beendivided intotwo parts: thosewho think that science candoanything, and those who are afraid that it will.

- Dixy Lee Ray
  In New Scientist, 5 Jul.

Anything scares me, anything scares anyone but really after all considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening.

- Gertrude Stein
  Everybody's Autobiography, ch.2.