Quotes by American/USA authors (page 46)

"I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written"

Ted Shawn, Dancer

"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed"

Norman Cota, Soldier

"You'll have time to rest when you're dead"

Robert De Niro, Actor

"If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out"

Paul Gallico, Writer

"I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband"

Julie Benz, Actress

"Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen"

Larry Niven, Writer

"Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?""

Annie Dillard, Author

"So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?"

Christina Aguilera, Musician

"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best"

Theodore Isaac Rubin, Psychologist

"Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves"

Jerome Bruner, Psychologist

"I think about my work every minute of the day"

Jeff Koons, Artist

"It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business"

Dolley Madison, First Lady

"Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started"

Ben Linder, Engineer

"I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler"

Jack Kirby, Cartoonist

"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement"

Jim Horning, Scientist

"Posing nude is not making porn"

Blu Cantrell, Musician

"Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom"

Bernard De Voto, Writer

"That's all nonviolence is - organized love"

Joan Baez, Musician

"A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers"

Lance Burton, Entertainer

"Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums"

Peter De Vries, Novelist

"The Green Party represents that majority point of view within the U.S"

Peter Camejo, Businessman

"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory"

Herbert Kaufman, Writer

"George Foreman is easier and has the bigger name and have you noticed that Foreman never calls me out or ever mentions my name? He is afraid of me like most fighters are and most people want to forget about Larry Holmes, like he never ever existed"

Larry Holmes, Athlete

"Sleep my friend, and you will see that dream is my reality"

James Hetfield, Musician

"Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age"

Frankie Avalon, Actor

"Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal"

Mark Mobius, Businessman

"I don't drink, I don't smoke and I don't party"

Stephanie Mills, Musician

"I have had all of the disadvantages required for success"

Larry Ellison, Businessman

"No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money"

Samuel Gompers, Activist

"They fail, and they alone, who have not striven"

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Poet

"When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical"

Jon Carroll, Journalist

"Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident"

Lauren Bacall, Actress

"In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss - and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last"

John Romero, Inventor