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Quotes by American Authors
"Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."
"I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all."
"Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy."
"We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics."
"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said."
"When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."
"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."
"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."
"Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression."
"Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people."
"A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can."
"Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day."
"Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out."
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
"People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else."
"Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God."
"Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas."
"Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation."
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
"If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost."
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose."
"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness."
"What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?"
"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction."
"We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution."
"I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work."
"I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood."
"There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original."
"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon."
"Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."
"Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated."
"Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation."
"When preparing to climb a mountain - pack a light heart."
"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."
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