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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"My ideas usually come not at my desk, writing, but in the midst of living"

Anais Nin, Author

Anais Nin

"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself"

Anais Nin, Author

Anais Nin

"Good things happen to those who hustle"

Anais Nin, Author

Anais Nin

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born"

Anais Nin, Author

Anais Nin

"Dreams are necessary to life"

Anais Nin, Author

Anais Nin

"Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions"

Anais Nin, Author

Anais Nin

"What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course"

Marilyn Monroe, Actress

Marilyn Monroe

"I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy!"

Marilyn Monroe, Actress

Marilyn Monroe

"I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent"

Marilyn Monroe, Actress

Marilyn Monroe

"The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

Malcolm Forbes

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

Malcolm Forbes

"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

Malcolm Forbes

"The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true"

Carl Rogers, Psychologist

Carl Rogers

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present"

Joan Rivers, Comedian

Joan Rivers

"Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory"

Joan Rivers, Comedian

Joan Rivers

"When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct, you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart"

Horace Mann, Educator

Horace Mann

"To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike"

Horace Mann, Educator

Horace Mann

"Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former"

Horace Mann, Educator

Horace Mann

"It's always too early to quit"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

Norman Vincent Peale

"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

Norman Vincent Peale

"Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

Norman Vincent Peale

"We will not know unless we begin"

Peter Nivio Zarlenga, Businessman

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

"Beauty is being in harmony with what you are"

Peter Nivio Zarlenga, Businessman

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

"The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes"

Susan Sontag, Author

Susan Sontag

"Books are funny little portable pieces of thought"

Susan Sontag, Author

Susan Sontag

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning"

Peter Nivio Zarlenga, Businessman

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

"Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are"

Susan Sontag, Author

Susan Sontag

"I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

Dick Cheney

"I believe very deeply in the proposition that what we did in Iraq was the right thing to do. It was hard to do. It took a long time. There were significant costs involved"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

Dick Cheney

"Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

Kin Hubbard

"When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

Kin Hubbard

"We would all like to vote for the best man, but he is never a candidate"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

Kin Hubbard

"No agency is better than its account executives"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

Samuel Goldwyn

"A hospital is no place to be sick"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

Samuel Goldwyn

"You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom"

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

Clarence Darrow

"There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court"

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

Clarence Darrow

"Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; justice is what comes out of a courtroom"

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

Clarence Darrow

"Remember that it is not where you come from, or not even where you are; it is where you are going that matters most"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

Bo Bennett

"Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

Bo Bennett

"I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it"

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

Clarence Darrow

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