Quotes by American/USA authors (page 43)

"Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here"

"My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road"

"Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors"

Thaddeus Stevens, Politician

"Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip"

Dorothy Kilgallen, Actress

"A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty"

William C. Bryant, Poet

"It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice"

John Templeton, Businessman

"Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it"

Tori Amos, Musician

"Gentlemen prefer bonds"

Andrew Mellon, Businessman

"I think Francis at half form is better than anybody else by 50%, you know? I think it's just that he has never... he has a late pick of the things that are ambitious enough for him"

John Milius, Director

"Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite"

Frank Capra, Director

"In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event"

Peggy Fleming, Athlete

"I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that"

James Dickey, Novelist

"Gifts make slaves"

Levi Strauss, Businessman

"How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination"

Nellie Bly, Journalist

"Some people will do schlock or anything, just to get their name on it"

Mort Walker, Artist

"Music is too important to be left to professionals"

Michelle Shocked, Musician

"Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music"

John Coltrane, Musician

"True feeling justifies whatever it may cost"

May Sarton, Poet

"Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be"

Marsha Blackburn, Politician

"A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz"

Humphrey Bogart, Actor

"Caffeine. The gateway drug"

Eddie Vedder, Musician

"I voted Republican this year; the Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth"

Monica Lewinsky, Celebrity

"If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained by refinancing was spent on consumer durables, home improvements and the like"

Martin Feldstein, Economist

"He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered"

Ring Lardner, Comedian

"My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am"

Joan Jett, Musician

"Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic"

Hosea Ballou, Clergyman

"Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account"

Chris Christie, Politician

"From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy"

Bernard Berenson, Historian

"A scientist should be the happiest of men"

George Wald, Scientist

"Gossip is easy, politics is hard"

Tabitha Soren, Celebrity

"I think I started out trying to be very objective about the flow of the play"

James Rado, Actor

"We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future"

John Hoeven, Politician

"The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people"

James A. Garfield, President

"Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much"

Bill Owens, Politician

"These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

"If you could sit down with Jesus, you wouldn't need anybody else. He could answer all of your questions. Instead of Einstein and Louis Pasteur and Madame Curry, you could just have Jesus and he could answer for all of them"

Carol Alt, Model

"On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people"

Camryn Manheim, Actress

"Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

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