Quotes by American/USA authors (page 73)

"Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary"

Jessamyn West, Author

"Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave"

Jessamyn West, Author

"Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures"

Jessamyn West, Author

"House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"One of my favorite things is mayonnaise and I have to tell you that. I love mayonnaise, but I don't eat it any more. If I do I put light mayonnaise on it, which I know is still not good but it's a lot better than the other one and I don't eat it that much"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"I think it's important to stretch as you get older, but I try to do basically all the things I did when I played, except I can't do them as well and as much"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"Teaching is the royal road to learning"

Jessamyn West, Author

"When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings"

W. E. B. Du Bois, Writer

"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line"

W. E. B. Du Bois, Writer

"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression"

W. E. B. Du Bois, Writer

"One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder"

W. E. B. Du Bois, Writer

"Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life"

W. E. B. Du Bois, Writer

"A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again"

W. E. B. Du Bois, Writer

"You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"Move fast with stable infrastructure"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"Connectivity is a human right"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"Our philosophy is that we care about people first"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings"

Jay London, Comedian

"Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness"

Don Marquis, Journalist

"My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night"

Lee Grant, Actress

"Kirk is a man, and he loves it. He loves women"

Lee Grant, Actress

"I went to a record store and asked for 50 cent. They kicked me out for pan-handling"

Jay London, Comedian

"I wanted to join the Army the sign said 'Be All That You Can Be', they told me it wasn't enough"

Jay London, Comedian

"Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered"

Franz Boas, Scientist

"People read me but they don't subscribe"

Jay London, Comedian

"Does anybody know what I'm doing up here?"

Jay London, Comedian

"Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"Nothing succeeds like address"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth"

Elmer Davis, Journalist

"I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth"

Lee Grant, Actress

"The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"Every actor in the room honored Sidney for being there so many years before. And everybody was so moved to be at a place where history was being made again. It was tangible"

Lee Grant, Actress

"I am proud of Kirk. I think he drums to his own drummer in every way"

Lee Grant, Actress

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