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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"Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life"

Michael Behe, Scientist

"Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals"

Ralph Bunche, Diplomat

Ralph Bunche

"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold"

Zelda Fitzgerald, Writer

Zelda Fitzgerald

"I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear"

Daniel Bell, Sociologist

"Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority"

Harlan Stone, Lawyer

Harlan Stone

"If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?"

Sojourner Truth, Activist

Sojourner Truth

"Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men"

Gifford Pinchot, Politician

"As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream"

Steve Forbes, Businessman

"I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard"

Maria Bartiromo, Journalist

"What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what and how we're going to achieve the generic goals on the list"

Edward Tufte, Educator

"Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism"

Daniel Bell, Sociologist

"The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion"

Charles Colson, Lawyer

"We could hardly wait to get up in the morning"

Wilbur Wright, Inventor

"There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Writer

"But the primary reason for wanting the dollar to become more competitive in the near future is that we may need an increase in exports this year and in 2007 to sustain the economy's current pace of expansion"

Martin Feldstein, Economist

"You don't build a bond without being present"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things"

Nicholas Meyer, Writer

"I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith"

Lynn Swann, Athlete

"If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water"

Parker Stevenson, Actor

"I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain"

Mercedes Ruehl, Actress

Mercedes Ruehl

"Woman are complex creatures"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"We're not saying that you don't need coal, but when you do mine the coal, there are responsibilities to it. It may cost a little more, but it is the right thing to do"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play it better than anyone else"

Dianne Feinstein, Politician

Dianne Feinstein

"Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe"

Dianne Feinstein, Politician

Dianne Feinstein

"The art of creation is older than the art of killing"

Edward Koch, Politician

"The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made"

Edward Norton, Actor

Edward Norton

"The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else"

Barry Commoner, Scientist

"An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me"

Andrew Greeley, Clergyman

"To fly, we have to have resistance"

Maya Lin, Architect

"The more specific you are, the more general it'll be"

Diane Arbus, Photographer

"I'm kind of a closet redneck"

Donald Trump Jr., Businessman

Donald Trump Jr.

"I'm not black, I'm O.J"

O.J. Simpson, Athlete

O.J. Simpson

"Whatever you're ready for is ready for you"

Mark Victor Hansen, Businessman

"The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do"

Mark Van Doren, Poet

"Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining"

Ice Cube, Musician

"I am for socialism, disarmament, and ultimately for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal"

Roger Nash Baldwin, Activist

"I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene"

Marc Ribot, Musician

"Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten"

Robert. L. Ehrlich, Politician

"It may take practice to think more positively and more compassionately, but just as you must train a puppy to behave the way you want it to, you must train your mind to behave itself. Otherwise, like the puppy, your mind will just make a lot of messes"

Tom Barrett, Politician

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