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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"A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man"

E. E. Cummings, Poet

E. E. Cummings

"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

Isaac Asimov

"You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time"

Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist

Chuck Palahniuk

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell"

Edward Abbey, Author

Edward Abbey

"There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them"

Casey Stengel, Athlete

"The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative"

John Dewey, Philosopher

John Dewey

"Not failure, but low aim, is crime"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

James Russell Lowell

"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'"

Don Marquis, Journalist

Don Marquis

"We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

Pearl S. Buck

"When in doubt, use brute force"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

Ken Thompson

"Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do"

Charles A. Jaffe, Businessman

Charles A. Jaffe

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams"

John Barrymore, Actor

John Barrymore

"We love because it's the only true adventure"

Nikki Giovanni, Poet

Nikki Giovanni

"Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously"

Earl Wilson, Athlete

Earl Wilson

"The cars we drive say a lot about us"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

Alexandra Paul

"It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption"

James Thurber, Comedian

James Thurber

"We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th"

Orville Wright, Inventor

Orville Wright

"Morality is only moral when it is voluntary"

Lincoln Steffens, Journalist

Lincoln Steffens

"If life gives you limes, make margaritas"

Jimmy Buffett, Musician

Jimmy Buffett

"Winners don't make excuses"

Harvey Specter, Actor

Harvey Specter

"To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides"

David Viscott, Psychologist

David Viscott

"I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry"

John Cage, Composer

John Cage

"No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business"

Paul Tsongas, Politician

Paul Tsongas

"Women are responsible for creating their own roles"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

Kathleen Turner

"Constant repetition carries conviction"

Robert Collier, Author

Robert Collier

"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware"

Alan Kay, Scientist

Alan Kay

"High expectations are the key to everything"

Sam Walton, Businessman

Sam Walton

"I talk to God but the sky is empty"

Sylvia Plath, Poet

"Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine"

Whoopi Goldberg, Actress

Whoopi Goldberg

"What's done to children, they will do to society"

Karl A. Menninger, Psychologist

Karl A. Menninger

"Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires"

Wallace Stevens, Poet

Wallace Stevens

"I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce"

J. Edgar Hoover, Public Servant

"The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them"

Patrick Henry, Politician

"Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children"

Sam Levenson, Author

"This is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth? I'm coming to join ya, honey!"

Redd Foxx, Actor

"Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note"

Hank Stram, Athlete

"Nothing in life is promised except death"

Kanye West, Musician

Kanye West

"Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed"

Bruce Springsteen, Musician

Bruce Springsteen

"I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you"

Edward Albee, Dramatist

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