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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"We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth"

Virginia Satir, Psychologist

Virginia Satir

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music"

Billy Wilder, Director

Billy Wilder

"Good enough never is"

Debbi Fields, Businesswoman

Debbi Fields

"Communication works for those who work at it"

John Powell, Composer

John Powell

"Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late"

Branch Rickey, Athlete

Branch Rickey

"The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work"

Michael Jackson, Musician

"The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive"

Allen Ginsberg, Poet

Allen Ginsberg

"People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

Jack Nicholson

"When I jerked it out the head remained in my leg, where it remains still. There were a couple of inches of blood on the shaft of the arrow when I pulled it out"

George Crook, Soldier

"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true"

J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist

J. Robert Oppenheimer

"Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand"

Patti Smith, Musician

"I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that"

Adam Sandler, Actor

Adam Sandler

"A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong"

Stella Adler, Actress

Stella Adler

"Failing to plan is planning to fail"

Alan Lakein, Businessman

Alan Lakein

"But nobody is listening to those points. They are just listening to the gossip which is saying that I knew I was positive for all these years because I had a faked test a few years ago"

Marc Wallice, Actor

Marc Wallice

"You're playing worse and worse every day and right now you're playing like it's next month"

Herb Brooks, Coach

"Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

Quentin Tarantino

"Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating"

Charlie Kaufman, Screenwriter

"Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around"

Frank Howard Clark, Writer

"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order"

John Burroughs, Author

"Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend"

Lucy Liu, Actress

"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell"

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Author

"God is in the details"

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony"

Lou Reed, Musician

"Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy"

Cynthia Nelms, Author

"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint"

Edward Hopper, Artist

Edward Hopper

"If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?"

Paul Harvey, Journalist

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning"

Louis L'Amour, Author

"The one image that's been causing a lot of discussion is one image that I shot of a man falling head-first from the building, before the buildings fell down. He was trapped in the fire, and decided to jump and take his own life, rather than being burned"

Richard Drew, Photographer

Richard Drew

"I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful"

Natalie Portman, Actress

Natalie Portman

"Prohibition has made nothing but trouble"

Al Capone, Criminal

"Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me"

Richard Pryor, Actor

"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do"

Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist

Georgia O'Keeffe

"Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?"

Charles Manson, Criminal

"I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.'"

June Lockhart, Actress

June Lockhart

"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing"

Rollo May, Psychologist

"Don't worry, don't worry. Look at the Astors and the Vanderbilts, all those big society people. They were the worst thieves - and now look at them. It's just a matter of time"

Meyer Lansky, Criminal

Meyer Lansky

"We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote"

Alice Paul, Activist

"Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward"

Victor Kiam, Businessman

"The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway"

Michael Pollan, Educator

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