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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"The great equalizer is health. If you don't have it, you're screwed"

Jami Gertz, Actress

"The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair"

Herbert Bayard Swope, Editor

"I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that"

Evel Knievel, Entertainer

"I think Jim Taylor was very underrated, never hear much about him. We played Green Bay every year in exhibition, and generally we played them every couple of years in regular season. And I always thought he was a fierce competitor"

Bob Lilly, Athlete

Bob Lilly

"The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies"

Fisher Stevens, Actor

"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"

Anita Loos, Writer

"I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages"

Bill Mauldin, Cartoonist

"Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them"

Robert Jarvik, Inventor

Robert Jarvik

"The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing"

Eric Berne, Psychologist

"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity"

Frank Leahy, Coach

"In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection"

Carol Gilligan, Psychologist

"I cried all the way to the bank"

Liberace, Entertainer

"Now the big question is: if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while"

William Bolcom, Composer

"The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy"

Theodore White, Journalist

"Every time you hear a bell ring, it means that some angel's just got his wings"

Frances Goodrich, Dramatist

"Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation"

Ernie Fletcher, Politician

"We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost"

Jeremiah Wright, Clergyman

"Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa"

T. Boone Pickens, Businessman

"I'm not doing any more nudity"

Shannon Elizabeth, Actress

Shannon Elizabeth

"The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips"

Karen McDougal, Model

"The very heart of being a sovereign nation is providing security of one's borders, of one's internal situation, and security against anyone attacking one's nation. That is the very heart of what I believe is sovereignty"

John Warner, Politician

"When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck"

James Whitcomb Riley, Poet

"How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all"

Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Poet

"Isn't that the most perverse thing you've ever heard?"

John Waters, Director

"Even now, I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid"

Clara Bow, Actress

"Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning"

Hannah Storm, Journalist

"Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it"

Katherine Anne Porter, Journalist

"Respect... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique"

Annie Gottlieb, Writer

"The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do"

Ted Nelson, Author

"If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost"

Lloyd C. Douglas, Clergyman

"Raising kids is part joy, and part guerilla warfare"

Ed Asner, Actor

"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before"

Leonard Bernstein, Composer

"The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose"

Richard Grant, Author

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it"

Bert Lance, Politician

Bert Lance

"Jimi was always at The Scene when he was in New York, and we played many times together. He was just everywhere - he went out and jammed everywhere he was"

Johnny Winter, Musician

"When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical"

Jon Carroll, Journalist

"This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it"

Maxwell Anderson, Playwright

"We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see"

Neil Sheehan, Journalist

"A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, but diamonds are a girl's best friend"

Leo Robin, Composer

"There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest"

Bugs Baer, Journalist

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