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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"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts"

Nikki Giovanni, Poet

Nikki Giovanni

"Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty"

John Carmack, Scientist

John Carmack

"I like women, but you can't always trust them. Some of them are big liars, like this one woman I met who had a dog. I asked her her dog's name and then I asked, 'Does he bite?' and she said, 'No.' And I said, 'So how does he eat?' Liar!"

Demetri Martin, Comedian

Demetri Martin

"A lot of people like lollipops. I don't like lollipops. To me, a lollipop is hard candy plus garbage. I don't need a handle. Just give me the candy"

Demetri Martin, Comedian

Demetri Martin

"Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again"

Earl Wilson, Athlete

Earl Wilson

"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have"

Gerald R. Ford, President

Gerald R. Ford

"I watch a lot of baseball on the radio"

Gerald R. Ford, President

Gerald R. Ford

"If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave"

Gerald R. Ford, President

Gerald R. Ford

"If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it, you almost don't have to manage them"

Jack Welch, Businessman

Jack Welch

"Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

Rush Limbaugh

"You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

Rush Limbaugh

"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on"

Ulysses S. Grant, President

Ulysses S. Grant

"My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent"

Ulysses S. Grant, President

Ulysses S. Grant

"Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor"

Ulysses S. Grant, President

Ulysses S. Grant

"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace"

Ulysses S. Grant, President

Ulysses S. Grant

"Where there is great love, there are always wishes"

Willa Cather, Author

Willa Cather

"Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

Alexandra Paul

"I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well"

Robert Benchley, Comedian

Robert Benchley

"If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your outlook on life"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

Alexandra Paul

"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm"

Willa Cather, Author

Willa Cather

"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory"

Rita Mae Brown, Writer

Rita Mae Brown

"Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable"

Loretta Young, Actress

Loretta Young

"Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud"

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

Mignon McLaughlin

"My favorite animal is steak"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

Fran Lebowitz

"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water"

John W. Gardner, Educator

John W. Gardner

"No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

Daniel Webster

"Research is creating new knowledge"

Neil Armstrong, Astronaut

Neil Armstrong

"I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream"

Neil Armstrong, Astronaut

Neil Armstrong

"The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

Stanley Kubrick

"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

Daniel J. Boorstin

"You can talk to a fade, but a hook won't listen"

Lee Trevino, Athlete

Lee Trevino

"A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

Stanley Kubrick

"Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power"

Barbara Jordan, Politician

Barbara Jordan

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

William Ellery Channing

"The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

Daniel J. Boorstin

"Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black"

Paul Newman, Actor

Paul Newman

"The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family"

Lee Iacocca, Businessman

Lee Iacocca

"The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything"

Lee Iacocca, Businessman

Lee Iacocca

"You must welcome change as the rule, but not as your ruler"

Denis Waitley, Writer

Denis Waitley

"It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit"

Denis Waitley, Writer

Denis Waitley

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