105334 Quotes by American authors

American voices swing between defiance and tenderness, mixing porch talk with courtroom thunder, hymnals with barroom jokes. The sayings lean toward motion, road-tested, restless, certain that the next turn matters, and they test ideas like tools, not ornaments. Humor undercuts sermon, dissent stands beside loyalty, and hope keeps arguing with experience. From prairie plain speech to borough quickfire, the language favors verbs over lace, a handshake over ceremony. Edge meets empathy, contradictions are carried honestly, and words still try to shove the world forward.

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"I hate Republicans and everything they stand for"

Howard Dean, Politician

Howard Dean

"It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!"

Harry Caray, Entertainer

"I've been using the same editor, thankfully, she's been sticking with me, but I've been doing it full-on guerilla style... I haven't gotten any public sponsor or anything, because I don't want to seem like I'm trying to sell any particular thing"

Daryl Hannah, Actress

"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency"

Eugene McCarthy, Politician

"Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways"

Stephen Vincent Benet, Poet

"The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl"

Shirley Chisholm, Politician

Shirley Chisholm

"Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast"

Joe Garagiola, Athlete

"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent, that is to triumph over old age"

Amos Bronson Alcott, Educator

"Once a Bond fan, always a Bond fan"

Richard Kiel, Actor

Richard Kiel

"The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't"

Greg Louganis, Athlete

"My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician"

Jeff Cooper, Celebrity

"The triumph can't be had without the struggle"

Wilma Rudolph, Athlete

"A wig is a wig is a wig"

Billy Zane, Actor

Billy Zane

"We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture"

Kate Millett, Activist

Kate Millett

"Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it"

Ray Kurzweil, Inventor

"I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl, which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance"

Saul Williams, Musician

"Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals"

Finley Peter Dunne, Journalist

"Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will"

Jonathan Edwards, Clergyman

"Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws"

John Shadegg, Politician

"Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"Stretching was a major part of my preparation"

Edwin Moses, Athlete

Edwin Moses

"One of the main things I do is focus on ideas and what stories we decide to tell, but probably the biggest part of my job, I'd say, is working on the storyboards"

Craig McCracken, Artist

"Life is painful, nasty and short... In my case it has only been painful and nasty"

Djuna Barnes, Novelist

Djuna Barnes

"The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it"

Jackie Robinson, Athlete

"We need a common enemy to unite us"

Condoleezza Rice, Statesman

Condoleezza Rice

"Black history is American history"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

Morgan Freeman

"The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it"

Jack Kirby, Cartoonist

Jack Kirby

"The law is not an end in itself, nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we think is right"

Harlan Stone, Lawyer

Harlan Stone

"It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help"

Judith Martin, Author

"It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies"

Mike Royko, Writer

"He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words"

Bobby Bowden, Coach

"Culture is not made up, but something that evolves, which is human"

Edward T. Hall, Scientist

Edward T. Hall

"All you may need to be happy is love, but to survive you need money!"

Jason Zebehazy, Businessman

"I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon"

Charles Colson, Lawyer

"I'm not homosexual, I'm not hetrosexual, I'm just sexual"

Michael Stipe, Musician

"Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does"

Nancy Cartwright, Actress

"Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic. You don't mind going through a little bush to get there!"

Minnie Pearl, Musician

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