105328 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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"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled"

Richard P. Feynman, Physicist

Richard P. Feynman

"I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect"

J.D. Salinger, Novelist

J.D. Salinger

"I never cut class. I loved getting As, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world"

Michelle Obama, First Lady

Michelle Obama

"If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it"

Tom Lehrer, Musician

Tom Lehrer

"Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing"

H. Stanley Judd, Author

"A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her"

Helen Rowland, Journalist

"Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy"

Frank Sinatra, Musician

Frank Sinatra

"Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it"

Harper Lee, Novelist

Harper Lee

"I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act"

Willie Mays, Athlete

Willie Mays

"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

Billy Sunday

"I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming"

Jimmy Carter, President

Jimmy Carter

"I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

Vladimir Nabokov

"I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life"

Robert Capa, Photographer

Robert Capa

"So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life"

Will Smith, Actor

Will Smith

"The only sin is mediocrity"

Martha Graham, Dancer

Martha Graham

"Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either"

Jesse Owens, Athlete

Jesse Owens

"Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power"

Julian Casablancas, Musician

Julian Casablancas

"Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too"

Will Smith, Actor

Will Smith

"Men and women have strengths that complement each other"

Edwin Louis Cole, Author

Edwin Louis Cole

"They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning"

Clint Eastwood, Actor

Clint Eastwood

"I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it"

Clint Eastwood, Actor

Clint Eastwood

"I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

Marian Wright Edelman

"The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do"

Sarah Ban Breathnach, Author

Sarah Ban Breathnach

"I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators"

Gerald R. Ford, President

Gerald R. Ford

"Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas"

Jack Welch, Businessman

Jack Welch

"Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, ' I apologize.' Except at a funeral"

Demetri Martin, Comedian

Demetri Martin

"In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children"

Robert Benchley, Comedian

Robert Benchley

"Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides"

Rita Mae Brown, Writer

Rita Mae Brown

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems"

John W. Gardner, Educator

John W. Gardner

"As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

Fran Lebowitz

"When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

Daniel Webster

"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small"

Neil Armstrong, Astronaut

Neil Armstrong

"The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

William Ellery Channing

"Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

Daniel J. Boorstin

"I've played golf with three U.S presidents"

Lee Trevino, Athlete

Lee Trevino

"I think the first duty of society is justice"

Alexander Hamilton, Politician

Alexander Hamilton

"Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome"

Brené Brown, Author

Brené Brown

"In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try"

David Viscott, Psychologist

David Viscott

"Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get"

Robert Orben, Entertainer

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