105341 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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"Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

Jock Sturges

"As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

Jock Sturges

"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles"

Washington Irving, Writer

Washington Irving

"I'm a reflection of the community"

Tupac Shakur, Musician

Tupac Shakur

"The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy"

Robert E. Lee, General

Robert E. Lee

"It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it"

Robert E. Lee, General

Robert E. Lee

"I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity"

Robert E. Lee, General

Robert E. Lee

"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself"

Robert E. Lee, General

Robert E. Lee

"Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less"

Robert E. Lee, General

Robert E. Lee

"I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things!"

Megan Fox, Actress

"I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation"

Megan Fox, Actress

"Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on"

Stephen Sondheim, Composer

Stephen Sondheim

"The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths"

Ken Kesey, Author

Ken Kesey

"There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy"

Ken Kesey, Author

Ken Kesey

"Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all"

Ken Kesey, Author

Ken Kesey

"One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills"

Earl Wilson, Athlete

Earl Wilson

"The monsters are in your own head"

Paula Cole, Musician

Paula Cole

"One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are"

Gail Godwin, Novelist

Gail Godwin

"I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success"

Paula Cole, Musician

Paula Cole

"You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up. These are things that are okay for cartoon characters to do"

Joan Severance, Actress

Joan Severance

"I definitely feel, when I'm wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them"

Joan Severance, Actress

Joan Severance

"I now have a plan - I haven't had a plan up until this year"

Joan Severance, Actress

Joan Severance

"Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us"

Nikki Giovanni, Poet

Nikki Giovanni

"I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society"

Joan Severance, Actress

Joan Severance

"I really think the mind of someone who hasn't been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this whole society is a wonderful mind to work with, so I'd like to do a big picture with an unknown director"

Joan Severance, Actress

Joan Severance

"I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling"

Joan Severance, Actress

Joan Severance

"If now isn't a good time for the truth, I don't see when we'll get to it"

Nikki Giovanni, Poet

Nikki Giovanni

"When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and winning"

Joan Severance, Actress

Joan Severance

"I hope they make a show like M*A*S*H, which dealt with a lot of difficult subject matter but was very funny"

Joan Severance, Actress

Joan Severance

"Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like to get one thing that's all of those combined"

Joan Severance, Actress

Joan Severance

"People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense"

Ken Kesey, Author

Ken Kesey

"Wearing this kind of costume is not something I fantasize about. It's not natural, it's not comfortable. I don't see myself as this. But it gives you dramatic license to do almost anything when you're dressed as a bug"

Joan Severance, Actress

Joan Severance

"If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously"

Ken Kesey, Author

Ken Kesey

"The authentic self is the soul made visible"

Sarah Ban Breathnach, Author

Sarah Ban Breathnach

"The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

Rush Limbaugh

"Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

Woodrow Wilson

"Number one, cash is king... Number two, communicate... Number three, buy or bury the competition"

Jack Welch, Businessman

Jack Welch

"An organization's ability to learn and translate that learning into action rapidly is the ultimate competitive advantage"

Jack Welch, Businessman

Jack Welch

"I don't need equal time, I am equal time!"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

Rush Limbaugh

"There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

Woodrow Wilson

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