Quotes by American/USA authors (page 45)

"Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships"

"Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time"

Grace Abbott, Activist

"Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections"

Meg Greenfield, Editor

"But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space"

Jack Schmitt, Astronaut

"I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal"

Roger Nash Baldwin, Activist

"I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it"

Nick Nolte, Actor

"The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates"

Jay Leno, Comedian

"Peace without justice is tyranny"

William Allen White, Editor

"The greens are harder than a whore's heart"

Sam Snead, Athlete

"Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves"

Richard Burr, Politician

"The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting"

Eric Schmidt, Businessman

"The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist"

E. Franklin Frazier, Sociologist

"I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns"

Walter F. Mondale, Lawyer

"The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real"

Marge Piercy, Writer

"What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process"

Seth Lloyd, Educator

"The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons"

Russell Banks, Author

"Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war"

John McCain, Politician

"I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand"

Rick Wagoner, Businessman

"I want to get people thinking"

James De La Vega, Artist

"A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion"

Hugo Black, Judge

"Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage"

John Shadegg, Politician

"I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'"

David O. Russell, Director

"Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace"

Frederick W. Taylor, Scientist

"I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and the love scenes were handled were really different"

Bo Derek, Actress

"Now I know why tigers eat their young"

Al Capone, Criminal

"Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all"

Dalton Trumbo, Novelist

"There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

"Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges"

Thomas W. Higginson, Clergyman

"I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc"

Howard Gardner, Psychologist

"On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer"

Bobby Seale, Activist

"Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities"

Alfred L. Kroeber, Scientist

"I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market"

Bryan White, Musician