Quotes by American/USA authors (page 33)

"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up"

"In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence"

Thomas Merton, Author

"I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"Great ideas originate in the muscles"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

"Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

"Eating without conversation is only stoking"

Marcelene Cox, Writer

"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

"Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude"

Raymond Holliwell, Author

"We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

"Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"I saw a report yesterday. There's so much oil, all over the world, they don't know where to dump it. And Saudi Arabia says, 'Oh, there's too much oil.' They - they came back yesterday. Did you see the report? They want to reduce oil production. Do you think they're our friends? They're not our friends"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, China does"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"Without losers, where would the winners be?"

Casey Stengel, Athlete

"No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball"

Casey Stengel, Athlete

"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

"Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left"

Robert Byrne, Celebrity

"Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography"

Robert Byrne, Celebrity

"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jurist

"A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jurist

"Film spectators are quiet vampires"

Jim Morrison, Musician

"I remixed a remix, it was back to normal"

Mitch Hedberg, Comedian

"Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"I like Kit-Kat, unless I'm with four or more people"

Mitch Hedberg, Comedian

"Bologna is a deli meat for people with eyes"

Mitch Hedberg, Comedian

"While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed"

Mattie Stepanek, Poet

"It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old"

Mary H. Waldrip, Editor

"I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer