Quotes by American/USA authors (page 38)

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

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

"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

"These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable"

Kinky Friedman, Musician

"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

"Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case"

John Rawls, Educator

"Home is the place we love best and grumble the most"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

"Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!"

Gilbert Hernandez, Artist

"The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian"

George F. Kennan, Historian

"A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme"

Diane Johnson, Novelist

"She looks like she combs her hair with an egg beater"

Hedda Hopper, Actress

"The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice"

John Rawls, Educator

"Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing"

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"I used to love Woody Allen but feel he's become a hack as a director. 'Bullets Over Broadway' is the only film of his I've enjoyed in the last 10 years"

Douglas Wood, Writer

"The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance"

John Rawls, Educator

"I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president"

James Carville, Lawyer

"There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic"

Nicolas Cage, Actor

"Protect your health. Without it you face a serious handicap for success and happiness"

Harry F. Banks, Producer

"If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment"

Harry F. Banks, Producer

"I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"Make no judgements where you have no compassion"

Anne McCaffrey, Author

"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one"

Helen Rowland, Journalist

"Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

"A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

"The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend"

Katharine Hepburn, Actress

"I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"Enemies are so stimulating"

Katharine Hepburn, Actress

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems"

John W. Gardner, Educator

"Home is any four walls that enclose the right person"

Helen Rowland, Journalist

"I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"Politics makes strange bedfellows"

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

"It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

"As always, we prepare for all sorts of contingencies. And the first few days of the flight up until docking on Day 3 are all spent really in the rendezvous because we launch at a time that puts us in an optimal position to catch up to station"

Linda M. Godwin, Astronaut

"Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them"

Linda M. Godwin, Astronaut

"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value"

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

"I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old"

Robert Indiana, Artist

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