105681 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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"It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail"

David Merrick, Producer

David Merrick

"A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent"

Jerome Lawrence, Playwright

Jerome Lawrence

"There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

Chris Van Allsburg

"How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

Sydney J. Harris

"A women needs to be a cook in the kitchen, and a whore in the bedroom"

Jerry Hall, Model

Jerry Hall

"If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

Peter Drucker

"Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

Arnold H. Glasow

"There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls"

George Carlin, Comedian

George Carlin

"If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts"

Camille Paglia, Author

Camille Paglia

"First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people"

Leo Rosten, Novelist

Leo Rosten

"I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success"

Ben Sweetland, Author

Ben Sweetland

"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

Michael Jordan

"We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

Dick Cheney

"There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results"

Judith Butler, Philosopher

Judith Butler

"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away"

Bob Metcalfe, Scientist

Bob Metcalfe

"May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live"

Tom Hanks, Actor

Tom Hanks

"As government imposes the will of a few upon the many, the many begin to resist. Ultimately, it becomes necessary for the government to use force to make the people conform"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

Charlie Kirk

"I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

Chris Van Allsburg

"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star"

W. Clement Stone, Businessman

W. Clement Stone

"A company is only as good as the people it keeps"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

Mary Kay Ash

"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

Elbert Hubbard

"Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts"

Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer

Robert Browning Hamilton

"My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening"

Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Author

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

B. F. Skinner

"Old age is no place for sissies"

Bette Davis, Actress

Bette Davis

"Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths"

Edgar A. Shoaff, Writer

"If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

Arnold H. Glasow

"Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

Chris Van Allsburg

"I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user"

Bill Gates, Businessman

Bill Gates

"Prestige is the shadow of money and power"

C. Wright Mills, Sociologist

C. Wright Mills

"The details are not the details. They make the design"

Charles Eames, Designer

Charles Eames

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