Quotes by American/USA authors (page 42)

"You can't make a souffle rise twice"

"Perspective is worth 80 IQ points"

"Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?"

Jennifer Garner, Actress

"The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it"

Mack R. Douglas, Businessman

"I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one"

Gary Allan, Musician

"Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts"

Mary Chesnut, Author

"Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions?"

Thomas Hooker, Leader

"The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again"

Sally Quinn, Journalist

"The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression"

Gary Larson, Cartoonist

"Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

"I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible"

Skeet Ulrich, Actor

"If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told"

Bennie Thompson, Politician

"Is there decency left in American politics?"

Byron Dorgan, Politician

"Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve"

Bob Riley, Politician

"What we're talking about is the price of goods, all goods, in terms of money. That has nothing to do with unemployment, except for the fact that you get fewer goods. And when you have more money and fewer goods, the amount of dollars per good goes up. It goes up because there are fewer goods and it goes up because there is more money"

Arthur Laffer, Economist

"Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent"

Arthur C. Nielsen, Businessman

"I dress for women and I undress for men"

Angie Dickinson, Actress

"Fascism is capitalism plus murder"

Upton Sinclair, Author

"I think it affected me physically and emotionally, yes. I did have my ups and downs, but I actually had more ups and downs after the shots were finished and she was pregnant because of the reality of being pregnant with twins"

Cheryl Tiegs, Model

"I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer"

Dan Quisenberry, Athlete

"Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear"

Robert Fitzgerald, Author

"I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird"

Uma Thurman, Actress

"Chris proposed exactly the way I've always dreamed. Our families were close by, but it was just us out on a beautiful deck overlooking a lake in East Tennessee. We had just been on a hike and - in our workout clothes - he hit the knee! We feel so blessed by God that He sent us each other, and we are looking so forward to forever together"

Hillary Scott, Musician

"Cats don't like change without their consent"

Roger Caras, Photographer

"Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions"

Pete Seeger, Musician

"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard"

Edgar R. Fiedler, Economist

"Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too"

Vanessa Hudgens, Actress

"Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records"

Frank Black, Musician

"That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them"

Cynthia Weil, Musician

"Death is very often referred to as a good career move"

Buddy Holly, Musician

"How, possibly, could the police have made the 'mistake' of charging the wrong man with the notorious Red Light Bandit crimes? That also is something that is fully revealed in the Pandora's Box of facts I have prepared"

Caryl Chessman, Criminal

"Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion"

Meg Tilly, Actress

"I really was a fan of his and always have been - his writing especially, you know? I think people a lot of times overlook that part, because he kind of got into that party character so heavy"

Alan Jackson, Musician