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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"Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing"

Christopher Morley, Author

Christopher Morley

"If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity"

Bill Vaughan, Journalist

Bill Vaughan

"Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

Andrea Dworkin

"Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

Andrea Dworkin

"And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them"

Michelle Obama, First Lady

Michelle Obama

"Be always sure you are right - then go ahead"

Davy Crockett, Explorer

Davy Crockett

"Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

Thornton Wilder

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel"

Frank Sinatra, Musician

Frank Sinatra

"You will never win if you never begin"

Helen Rowland, Journalist

"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

Vladimir Nabokov

"Cock your hat - angles are attitudes"

Frank Sinatra, Musician

Frank Sinatra

"Satire is a lesson, parody is a game"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

Vladimir Nabokov

"If I have a style, I am not aware of it"

Michael Graves, Architect

Michael Graves

"You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here"

Harper Lee, Novelist

Harper Lee

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what"

Harper Lee, Novelist

Harper Lee

"We teach people how to treat us"

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

Phil McGraw

"My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did'"

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

Phil McGraw

"Awareness without action is worthless"

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

Phil McGraw

"The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man"

Roy L. Smith, Clergyman

Roy L. Smith

"It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man"

Harper Lee, Novelist

Harper Lee

"Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson"

Willie Mays, Athlete

Willie Mays

"Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long"

Ogden Nash, Poet

Ogden Nash

"People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up"

Ogden Nash, Poet

Ogden Nash

"You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float"

John Barrymore, Actor

John Barrymore

"Learn by practice"

Martha Graham, Dancer

Martha Graham

"I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency"

George Clooney, Actor

George Clooney

"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort"

Jesse Owens, Athlete

Jesse Owens

"Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock"

John Barrymore, Actor

John Barrymore

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome"

Booker T. Washington, Educator

Booker T. Washington

"Well, excuuuuuse me!"

Steve Martin, Comedian

Steve Martin

"Love is a promise delivered already broken"

Steve Martin, Comedian

Steve Martin

"Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!"

Steve Martin, Comedian

Steve Martin

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night"

Steve Martin, Comedian

Steve Martin

"Politeness is half good manners and half good lying"

Mary Wilson Little, Writer

Mary Wilson Little

"He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become, at sixty, as wise as he thought himself at twenty"

Mary Wilson Little, Writer

Mary Wilson Little

"You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

Ray Bradbury

"Swift justice demands more than just swiftness"

Potter Stewart, Judge

Potter Stewart

"I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves"

Mel Gibson, Actor

Mel Gibson

"For me, music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again"

Paula Cole, Musician

Paula Cole

"Just watching my cats can make me happy"

Paula Cole, Musician

Paula Cole

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