105349 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 hard. When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But when I'm hitting, I hit anybody"

Willie Mays, Athlete

Willie Mays

"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos"

Stephen Sondheim, Composer

Stephen Sondheim

"Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do"

Ellen Glasgow, Novelist

Ellen Glasgow

"A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away"

Ellen Glasgow, Novelist

Ellen Glasgow

"I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged"

Stephen Sondheim, Composer

Stephen Sondheim

"The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion, don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me"

Stephen Sondheim, Composer

Stephen Sondheim

"I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra"

Stephen Sondheim, Composer

Stephen Sondheim

"Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure"

Stephen Sondheim, Composer

Stephen Sondheim

"Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall"

Stephen Sondheim, Composer

Stephen Sondheim

"If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

Marian Wright Edelman

"It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else"

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

Phil McGraw

"There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

Vladimir Nabokov

"But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals"

Warren Zevon, Musician

Warren Zevon

"Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them"

Mel Gibson, Actor

Mel Gibson

"But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging"

Warren Zevon, Musician

Warren Zevon

"We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

Marian Wright Edelman

"Service is what life is all about"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

Marian Wright Edelman

"Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde on Blonde every time"

Warren Zevon, Musician

Warren Zevon

"My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums"

Warren Zevon, Musician

Warren Zevon

"And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard"

Warren Zevon, Musician

Warren Zevon

"One of your tasks is to separate the 'personal' from the 'substantive.' The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong"

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

Donald Rumsfeld

"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

Vladimir Nabokov

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

Vladimir Nabokov

"The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

Rush Limbaugh

"Give me a highly successful unionized industry"

Jack Welch, Businessman

Jack Welch

"Don't manage - lead change before you have to"

Jack Welch, Businessman

Jack Welch

"Control your own destiny or someone else will"

Jack Welch, Businessman

Jack Welch

"Change before you have to"

Jack Welch, Businessman

Jack Welch

"I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

Rush Limbaugh

"Football is like life, and I know life"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

Rush Limbaugh

"Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

Rush Limbaugh

"Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

Vladimir Nabokov

"I confess, I do not believe in time"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

Vladimir Nabokov

"I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

Vladimir Nabokov

"You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

Rush Limbaugh

"Poverty is not the root cause of crime"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

Rush Limbaugh

"Obama had the audacity to say, 'I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.' Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United States has always been illegal"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

Rush Limbaugh

"None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

Rush Limbaugh

"No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

Rush Limbaugh

"The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes"

Washington Irving, Writer

Washington Irving

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