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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"The best view comes after the hardest climb"

Mat Fraser, Athlete

Mat Fraser

"But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy"

Nancy Pelosi, Politician

Nancy Pelosi

"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

"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it"

Bob Hope, Comedian

Bob Hope

"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

Ambrose Bierce

"Competition is a sin"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

John D. Rockefeller

"I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future"

Ralph Abernathy, Activist

Ralph Abernathy

"Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

Arnold H. Glasow

"Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed"

Irene Peter, Writer

"Every wall is a door"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

Twyla Tharp

"It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got"

Sheryl Crow, Musician

Sheryl Crow

"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

Chris Van Allsburg

"Genius is never understood in its own time"

Bill Watterson, Cartoonist

Bill Watterson

"If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes"

Lewis Grizzard, Writer

Lewis Grizzard

"The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have"

Ring Lardner, Comedian

Ring Lardner

"Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

B. F. Skinner

"Language is a virus from outer space"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

William S. Burroughs

"We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company"

Lily Tomlin, Actress

Lily Tomlin

"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there"

Henry James, Writer

Henry James

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom"

Anais Nin, Author

Anais Nin

"I don't persuade to suicide"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

Jack Kevorkian

"Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it"

Madeleine L'Engle, Novelist

Madeleine L'Engle

"He who has the gold makes the rules"

Tyler Perry, Actor

Tyler Perry

"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

W. C. Fields

"On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

Adlai E. Stevenson

"Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be"

Joan Rivers, Comedian

Joan Rivers

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

Charles Eames, Designer

Charles Eames

"Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps"

Emo Philips, Comedian

Emo Philips

"Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

Arnold H. Glasow

"Any colour - so long as it's black"

Henry Ford, Businessman

Henry Ford

"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing"

Stephen Covey, Businessman

Stephen Covey

"Be curious, not judgmental"

Walt Whitman, Poet

Walt Whitman

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