105303 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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"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

"Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

W. C. Fields

"Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't"

Richard Bach, Novelist

Richard Bach

"I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure"

Anne Baxter, Actress

Anne Baxter

"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one"

Dolly Parton, Musician

Dolly Parton

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand"

Milton Friedman, Economist

Milton Friedman

"You're only as good as your last performance"

Al Pacino, Actor

Al Pacino

"Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too"

Vanessa Hudgens, Actress

Vanessa Hudgens

"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer"

Paul R. Ehrlich, Scientist

Paul R. Ehrlich

"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world"

Joel A. Barker, Author

Joel A. Barker

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college"

Lillian Smith, Author

Lillian Smith

"That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves"

Kim Stanley Robinson, Writer

Kim Stanley Robinson

"There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us"

James Truslow Adams, Historian

James Truslow Adams

"A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

Arnold H. Glasow

"Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

Charles F. Kettering

"Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world"

Harriet Tubman, Activist

"I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

W. C. Fields

"Champions keep playing until they get it right"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

Billie Jean King

"I am not a crook"

Richard M. Nixon, President

Richard M. Nixon

"Be curious, not judgmental"

Walt Whitman, Poet

Walt Whitman

"Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

Andy Rooney

"A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer"

Dean Acheson, Statesman

Dean Acheson

"The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

Arnold H. Glasow

"Get busy living, or get busy dying"

Stephen King, Author

Stephen King

"The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little"

Ben Sweetland, Author

Ben Sweetland

"Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life"

Ben Sweetland, Author

Ben Sweetland

"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

Groucho Marx

"A person's a person, no matter how small"

Dr. Seuss, Writer

Dr. Seuss

"It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes"

Anne Baxter, Actress

Anne Baxter

"See into life, don't just look at it"

Anne Baxter, Actress

Anne Baxter

"Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more"

George S. Patton, Soldier

George S. Patton

"Love doesn't make the word go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

Franklin P. Jones

"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

Jesse Jackson

"Fascism is capitalism plus murder"

Upton Sinclair, Author

Upton Sinclair

"The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed"

Martina Navratilova, Athlete

Martina Navratilova

"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you"

Woody Hayes, Coach

Woody Hayes

"For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything"

Kenneth Noland, Artist

Kenneth Noland

"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be"

Clementine Paddleford, Journalist

"If you believe in something, you need to have the courage to fight for those ideas - not run away from them or try and silence them"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

Charlie Kirk

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