105331 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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"Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions"

Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist

Barbara Januszkiewicz

"Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities"

Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist

Barbara Januszkiewicz

"You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist"

Jimmy Smits, Actor

Jimmy Smits

Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist

Barbara Januszkiewicz

"Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination"

Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist

Barbara Januszkiewicz

"When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for putting up with all the stress and strain all season. I had to thank all the single broads in New York"

Joe Namath, Athlete

Joe Namath

"Till I was 13, I thought my name was "Shut Up""

Joe Namath, Athlete

Joe Namath

"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight"

Phyllis Diller, Comedian

Phyllis Diller

"It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail"

Gore Vidal, Novelist

Gore Vidal

"It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

Andy Rooney

"The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't seen the joke yet"

Oliver Herford, Author

Oliver Herford

"Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them"

Rita Rudner, Comedian

Rita Rudner

"The night before I compete, I like to have steak. Meat is especially important for female athletes because it provides them with the nutrients they need to perform at their best"

Sasha Cohen, Athlete

Sasha Cohen

"A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish"

Oliver Herford, Author

Oliver Herford

"I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear"

Cindy Sherman, Photographer

Cindy Sherman

"Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings"

Oliver Herford, Author

Oliver Herford

"Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle"

Sasha Cohen, Athlete

Sasha Cohen

"You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out'"

Jerry Seinfeld, Comedian

Jerry Seinfeld

"If you have never been amazed by the very fact that you exist, you are squandering the greatest fact of all"

Jim Fiebig, Businessman

Jim Fiebig

"Many are called, but few get up"

Oliver Herford, Author

Oliver Herford

"Everyone thinks these are self-portraits, but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible"

Cindy Sherman, Photographer

Cindy Sherman

"Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go"

Truman Capote, Novelist

Truman Capote

"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature"

Dave Barry, Author

Dave Barry

"Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life"

Wayne Dyer, Psychologist

Wayne Dyer

"Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end"

Marcelene Cox, Writer

Marcelene Cox

"If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents"

Marcelene Cox, Writer

Marcelene Cox

"When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating"

Marcelene Cox, Writer

Marcelene Cox

"It was not an asteroid or comet, because it would have killed everything"

Robert T. Bakker, Scientist

Robert T. Bakker

"Feathers predate birds"

Robert T. Bakker, Scientist

Robert T. Bakker

"The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her"

Marcelene Cox, Writer

Marcelene Cox

"They'll take everything, even your tears"

George Foreman, Athlete

George Foreman

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going"

Beverly Sills, Musician

Beverly Sills

"Love is a friendship set to music"

Joseph Campbell, Author

Joseph Campbell

"Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction"

E. O. Wilson, Scientist

E. O. Wilson

"There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause"

George Matthew Adams, Philosopher

George Matthew Adams

"A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil"

James A. Garfield, President

James A. Garfield

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world"

Lucille Ball, Comedian

Lucille Ball

"A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together"

Garrison Keillor, Writer

Garrison Keillor

"I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

Ken Thompson

"The police must obey the law while enforcing the law"

Earl Warren, Judge

Earl Warren

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