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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"They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards"

Creighton W. Abrams, Jr., Soldier

Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

"A fox is a wolf who sends flowers"

Ruth Brown, Musician

Ruth Brown

"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

Charles F. Kettering

"If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

Charles F. Kettering

"If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"The best way out is always through"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

"Never wound a snake; kill it"

Harriet Tubman, Activist

"If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you"

Steven Wright, Comedian

Steven Wright

"It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any"

Mae West, Actress

Mae West

"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

Jim Rohn

"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it"

Robin Williams, Comedian

Robin Williams

"The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?"

W. Clement Stone, Businessman

W. Clement Stone

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

Kurt Vonnegut

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose"

Robert Byrne, Celebrity

Robert Byrne

"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

Norman Vincent Peale

"A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings"

Olin Miller, Writer

Olin Miller

"In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

Thomas Szasz

"Vanity is my favourite sin"

Al Pacino, Actor

Al Pacino

"My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can"

Cary Grant, Actor

Cary Grant

"What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

Abraham Maslow

"A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him"

Elmer G. Letterman, General

"The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters"

George Foreman, Athlete

George Foreman

"Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal"

E. O. Wilson, Scientist

E. O. Wilson

"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them"

John C. Maxwell, Clergyman

"The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down"

A. Whitney Brown, Comedian

A. Whitney Brown

"A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there"

H. Stanley Judd, Author

"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men"

Samuel Adams, Revolutionary

Samuel Adams

"I voted Republican this year; the Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth"

Monica Lewinsky, Celebrity

Monica Lewinsky

"Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important"

John Carmack, Scientist

John Carmack

"The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off"

Abe Lemons, Coach

Abe Lemons

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre"

Gail Godwin, Novelist

Gail Godwin

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today"

James Dean, Actor

James Dean

"Nobody's free until everybody's free"

Fannie Lou Hamer, Activist

Fannie Lou Hamer

"There is nothing a woman can't do. Men might think they do things all by themselves but a woman is always there guiding them or helping them"

Marjorie Joyner, Businesswoman

"When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love"

Elisabeth Rohm, Actress

Elisabeth Rohm

"It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant"

James D. Watson, Scientist

James D. Watson

"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

Arnold H. Glasow

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