Quotes by American/USA authors (page 37)

"The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare"

"If you don't have enemies, you don't have character"

"I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'"

Demetri Martin, Comedian

"Order is the shape upon which beauty depends"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly"

Harry Reasoner, Journalist

"A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!"

Edgar Bergen, Actor

"The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason"

Hal Borland, Author

"Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing"

Bernard Baruch, Businessman

"My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic"

Charles Eames, Designer

"I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

"My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver"

Gene Wolfe, Writer

"Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

"Never answer a question from a farmer"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States"

Anna Louise Strong, Journalist

"Your successful past will block your visions of the future"

Joel A. Barker, Author

"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending"

William Dean Howells, Author

"I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers"

Eddie Floyd, Musician

"Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection"

William Dean Howells, Author

"I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"I would love to do more movies. I'd like to get into some theater, too, if I could, just to learn more. I want to do gritty performances that I'm proud of. It doesn't matter to me if four people see it or millions of people see it, as long as I perform in such a way that people go, 'Wow!'"

Jason Dohring, Actor

"We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to be another person and create what it would be like to be that person"

Jason Dohring, Actor

"A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life"

Edwin Markham, Poet

"Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette"

Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist

"He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others"

David Seabury, Psychologist

"We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality"

Judy Garland, Actress

"Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

"Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope"

Mahalia Jackson, Musician

"The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy"

Magic Johnson, Athlete

"Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll"

Dusty Baker, Athlete

"Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands"

Spencer Bachus, Politician

"Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control"

Robert Smithson, Artist

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