Quotes by American/USA authors (page 10)

"I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today"

Dwayne Johnson, Actor

"It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality"

John Randolph, Leader

"If you never try, you'll never know what you are capable of"

John Barrow, Politician

"Thirty percent of the Nation's energy comes off the gulf coast"

Bobby Jindal, Politician

"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow"

Edward Teller, Physicist

"If you wanna cry ..use tissue paper not your fb status"

Facebook

"The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer"

John Madden, Entertainer

"Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city"

Frank Gehry, Architect

"If you believe in yourself anything is possible"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"My motto - sans limites"

Isadora Duncan, Dancer

"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition"

Jacques Barzun, Educator

"In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Science does not know its debt to imagination"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"The ancestor of every action is a thought"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Money often costs too much"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so"

Mark Twain, Author

"The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven"

Mark Twain, Author

"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen"

Mark Twain, Author

"If you have a vision, do something with it"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"Distrust and caution are the parents of security"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Remember that credit is money"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Genius without education is like silver in the mine"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small"

Woody Allen, Director

"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Delay is preferable to error"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?"

Thomas Jefferson, President