105286 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 media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses"

Malcolm X, Activist

Malcolm X

"A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!"

Oscar Hammerstein II, Musician

Oscar Hammerstein II

"The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

"Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

Arnold H. Glasow

"Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

Chris Van Allsburg

"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

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

Henry Ford, Businessman

Henry Ford

"Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved"

Mattie Stepanek, Poet

Mattie Stepanek

"One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again"

Judith Viorst, Author

Judith Viorst

"Language is a virus from outer space"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

William S. Burroughs

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday"

John Wayne, Actor

John Wayne

"Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time"

Ross Perot, Businessman

Ross Perot

"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded"

Barack Obama, President

Barack Obama

"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling"

Margaret Lee Runbeck, Author

Margaret Lee Runbeck

"Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

Hubert H. Humphrey

"The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

Malcolm Forbes

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"

Upton Sinclair, Author

Upton Sinclair

"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones"

John Steinbeck, Author

John Steinbeck

"Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship"

Omar N. Bradley, Soldier

Omar N. Bradley

"Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics"

Jane Addams, Activist

Jane Addams

"If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death"

Paul Lynde, Comedian

Paul Lynde

"The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

Arnold H. Glasow

"The years teach much which the days never know"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

Chris Van Allsburg

"The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

Chris Van Allsburg

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay"

Bob Dylan, Musician

Bob Dylan

"Music is my religion"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

Jimi Hendrix

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

Jimi Hendrix

"Never give an order that can't be obeyed"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

Douglas MacArthur

"Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other"

William Faulkner, Novelist

William Faulkner

"May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live"

Tom Hanks, Actor

Tom Hanks

"Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn"

Fulton J. Sheen, Clergyman

Fulton J. Sheen

"Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about"

George Allen, Sr., Coach

George Allen, Sr.

"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

Charles F. Kettering

"One fails forward toward success"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

Charles F. Kettering

"The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

Chris Van Allsburg

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

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