Quotes by American/USA authors (page 16)

"Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it"

"But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world"

Joel A. Barker, Author

"Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one"

Ralph Ransom, Artist

"Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising"

Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist

"Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation"

Edward R. Murrow, Journalist

"Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

"The waste basket is the writer's best friend"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings"

Earl Wilson, Athlete

"Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away"

Audre Lorde, Poet

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul"

Judy Garland, Actress

"Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them"

Mahalia Jackson, Musician

"A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen"

Diane Johnson, Novelist

"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball"

Pete Rose, Athlete

"A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful"

Charles W. Pickering, Judge

"When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again"

Nikki Giovanni, Poet

"For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks"

Alexis Bledel, Actress

"Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for"

Aaron Sorkin, Producer

"A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his"

Bobby Darin, Musician

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

"Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel"

Oscar Levant, Composer

"Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection"

Neal Boortz, Journalist

"Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are"

Erica Jong, Novelist

"Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild"

Nicolas Cage, Actor

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom"

Anais Nin, Author

"So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom"

Al Goldstein, Publisher

"The reason people sweat is so they won't catch fire when making love"

Don Rose, Radio host

"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength"

Betty Friedan, Activist

"In Boston serpents whistle at the cold"

Robert Lowell, Poet

"Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin"

John von Neumann, Mathematician

"I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful"

Natalie Portman, Actress

"Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape"

Busta Rhymes, Musician