Quotes by American/USA authors (page 3)

"The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

"A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost"

Marion C. Garretty, Poet

"No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"All lasting business is built on friendship"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

"You do the policy, I'll do the politics"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"No two persons ever read the same book"

Edmund Wilson, Critic

"People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense"

Ken Kesey, Author

"Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding"

Louis Gerstner, Businessman

"If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it"

Mark Twain, Author

"All generalizations are false, including this one"

Mark Twain, Author

"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things"

Robert Brault, Philosopher

"The cars we drive say a lot about us"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"When I get sad I stop being sad and be AWESOME instead. True story!"

Barney Stinson, Actor

"Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?"

Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer

"Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security"

Mark Hatfield, Politician

"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them"

George H. W. Bush, President

"As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth"

Natalie Clifford Barney, Author

"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Eighty percent of success is showing up"

Woody Allen, Director

"I have always been a fan of Coca-Cola. I think it has the best taste of any soft drink"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"Immortality - a fate worse than death"

Edgar A. Shoaff

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing"

Walt Disney, Cartoonist

"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised"

George Will, Journalist

"Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling"

Margaret Lee Runbeck, Author

"Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real"

Thomas Merton, Author

"Character matters; leadership descends from character"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it"

Elmer Davis, Journalist

"You're never a loser until you quit trying"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up"

Paul Castellano, Criminal

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Quotes by American authors