105322 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 one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family"

Jasmine Guy, Actress

"Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite"

Marlon Brando, Actor

"Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God"

Rick Warren, Writer

"Politics makes strange bedfellows"

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

"The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane"

Nikola Tesla, Inventor

"In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough"

K. Eric Drexler, Scientist

K. Eric Drexler

"I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize"

Jodie Foster, Actress

Jodie Foster

"Blame is for God and small children"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest"

Roseanne Barr, Actress

"No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will"

Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Writer

"You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility"

Byron Dorgan, Politician

"And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

Sam Donaldson

"I don't know, I never smoked AstroTurf"

Tug McGraw, Athlete

Tug McGraw

"Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it"

Andrew Young, Clergyman

"I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma"

L. Frank Baum, Author

"Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door"

Kyle Chandler, Actor

Kyle Chandler

"Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail"

Robert Motherwell, Artist

"Death is very often referred to as a good career move"

Buddy Holly, Musician

Buddy Holly

"Filmmaking can be a fine art"

Terri Windling, Artist

"It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice"

John Templeton, Businessman

"Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone"

Donald Norman, Scientist

"I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came"

Jefferson Davis, President

Jefferson Davis

"The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything"

Nelson Rockefeller, Vice President

"The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice"

Brian Herbert, Author

Brian Herbert

"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country"

Marion Barry, Politician

"The simple act of caring is heroic"

Edward Albert, Actor

"Well being as there's no other place around the place, I reckon this must be the place, I reckon"

Curly Howard, Actor

"You only know what you know"

Loretta Swit, Actress

"A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years"

Lysander Spooner, Philosopher

"The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

John Ashcroft

"It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law"

Cecil B. DeMille, Producer

"The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity"

Anna Julia Cooper, Educator

"You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution"

Robert F. Kennedy, Politician

Robert F. Kennedy

"There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you"

David D. Burns, Writer

"The Army damages itself when it doesn't live up to its own values"

Claudia Kennedy, Soldier

Claudia Kennedy

"I don't smoke, so they never sent me a copy"

Lita Ford, Musician

"I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out"

Lee Grant, Actress

"It's not how fast you get there, but how long you stay"

Patty Berg, Athlete

"The only safe ship in a storm is leadership"

Faye Wattleton, Sociologist

"His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen"

Nancy Sinatra, Musician

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