Quotes by American/USA authors (page 44)

"This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and laying the groundwork for a better future. And that's what we want to work on with Republicans and Democrats"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work"

Michael Jackson, Musician

"Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that"

Ad Reinhardt, Artist

"I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22"

Daniel J. Evans, Politician

"My life has been a series of emergencies"

Lana Turner, Actress

"For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide"

Johnny Cash, Musician

"My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind"

Boyd Rice, Artist

"I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it"

Todd Gitlin, Sociologist

"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park"

Donella Meadows, Environmentalist

"Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful"

Ann Landers, Journalist

"The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine"

George S. Kaufman, Dramatist

"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

"One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive"

Morrie Schwartz, Educator

"We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death"

David Sarnoff, Inventor

"I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail"

Muriel Strode, Poet

"Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart"

Phil Jackson, Coach

"Your body hears everything your mind says"

Naomi Judd, Musician

"I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still"

Calvin Trillin, Journalist

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity"

Irving Kristol, Editor

"The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer"

Joan Collins, Actress

"Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture"

Lydia M. Child, Activist

"I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats"

Joe Davis, Celebrity

"An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible"

Russell Hoban, Novelist

"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow"

Melody Beattie, Writer

"One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is not so directional in time, not so much climactic form, but rather form which allows time, to stand still"

La Monte Young, Composer

"Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will"

Ron Blomberg, Athlete

"The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa - not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is 'you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say why not; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before"

Anita Dunn, Public Servant

"Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error"

Benjamin Rush, Scientist

"Are the things that now, in retrospect, with what I've seen happen to my company, would I have done some things differently? I think - I think we all would do - we would do a number of things differently"

Jeffrey Skilling, Criminal

"A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it"

Ely Culbertson, Writer

"When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future"

Dian Fossey, Scientist

"Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana"

Conrad Burns, Politician

"The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty"

Thomas Griffith, Editor

"Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy"

Robert Crumb, Artist

"A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching"

A. Bartlett Giamatti, Educator

"Strong convictions precede great actions"

James Freeman Clarke, Clergyman

"And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it"

John Bigelow, Lawyer

"I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have"

Lloyd Banks, Musician

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