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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"If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans"

Woody Allen, Director

Woody Allen

"He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian"

Woody Allen, Director

Woody Allen

"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"I think all fiction should be fair game for the Christian market, except porn, of course"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"It's made me more expectant of the imminent return of Jesus, and also more sensitive to the people around me. Knowing Jesus will return soon makes me want all the more to tell people about him and all that he offers"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"In my opinion, Jesus is God's attempt to reach man. But while I believe Jesus is the way to God, it makes no sense to hate people who disagree"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

Thomas Sowell

"Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm"

John F. Kennedy, President

John F. Kennedy

"I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land"

Harriet Tubman, Activist

"I can't die but once"

Harriet Tubman, Activist

"I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other"

Harriet Tubman, Activist

"If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more"

Harriet Tubman, Activist

"You'll be free or die!"

Harriet Tubman, Activist

"I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger"

Harriet Tubman, Activist

"Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time"

Steven Wright, Comedian

Steven Wright

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

Thomas Edison

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

Thomas Edison

"Great ideas originate in the muscles"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

Thomas Edison

"I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

Twyla Tharp

"Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

Twyla Tharp

"Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law"

James A. Baldwin, Author

James A. Baldwin

"I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure"

Mae West, Actress

Mae West

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