Quotes by American/USA authors (page 59)

"When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"I'm the only president you've got"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle"

Bob Hope, Comedian

"I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom"

Bob Hope, Comedian

"I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap"

Bob Hope, Comedian

"People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake"

Bob Hope, Comedian

"The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast"

Bob Hope, Comedian

"Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves"

Willa Cather, Author

"Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening"

Willa Cather, Author

"I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived"

Willa Cather, Author

"All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens"

Willa Cather, Author

"There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before"

Willa Cather, Author

"A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one"

Willa Cather, Author

"Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it"

Irene Peter, Writer

"What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose"

Willa Cather, Author

"The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

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