105303 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 fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights"

Muhammad Ali, Athlete

"I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old"

Robert Indiana, Artist

Robert Indiana

"Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much"

John Wayne, Actor

John Wayne

"Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

Warren Buffett

"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality"

Frank Herbert, Writer

Frank Herbert

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

P. J. O'Rourke

"Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

Hunter S. Thompson

"Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before"

Margaret Lee Runbeck, Author

Margaret Lee Runbeck

"Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses"

Robert Byrne, Celebrity

Robert Byrne

"I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good"

Thomas Hooker, Leader

Thomas Hooker

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails"

William Arthur Ward, Writer

William Arthur Ward

"Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

Kin Hubbard

"It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own"

Herbert Hoover, President

Herbert Hoover

"A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

Ralph Nader

"Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

Ansel Adams

"I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me"

Cary Grant, Actor

Cary Grant

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times"

Bruce Lee, Actor

Bruce Lee

"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart"

E. E. Cummings, Poet

E. E. Cummings

"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

William F. Buckley, Jr.

"Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to"

Henny Youngman, Comedian

Henny Youngman

"Nobody ever lost money taking a profit"

Bernard Baruch, Businessman

Bernard Baruch

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

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

Bryant H. McGill

"Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation"

Edward R. Murrow, Journalist

Edward R. Murrow

"Everything begins with an idea"

Earl Nightingale, Writer

Earl Nightingale

"All men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes"

Marilyn French, Author

Marilyn French

"Feedback is the breakfast of champions"

Ken Blanchard, Author

Ken Blanchard

"We are most alive when we're in love"

John Updike, Novelist

John Updike

"The real secret of success is enthusiasm"

Walter Chrysler, Inventor

Walter Chrysler

"The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have"

Leonard Nimoy, Actor

Leonard Nimoy

"Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better"

Bill Bradley, Politician

Bill Bradley

"I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good"

Barbra Streisand, Actress

Barbra Streisand

"Share our similarities, celebrate our differences"

M. Scott Peck, Psychologist

M. Scott Peck

"I'm not afraid of aging"

Shelley Duvall, Actress

Shelley Duvall

"I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid"

John Gotti, Criminal

John Gotti

"Poetry is life distilled"

Gwendolyn Brooks, Poet

"Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money"

Helen Gurley Brown, Editor

Helen Gurley Brown

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