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Quotes by American Authors
"Peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none."
"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy."
"History never looks like history when you are living through it."
"Wrath: look at how their folklore portrays our species. There's Dracula for Christ's sake, an evil bloodsucker who preys on the defenseless. There's piss-poor B movies and porn. And don't get me started on the whole Halloween thing. Plastic fangs. Black capes. The only thing the idiots got right are that we drink blood and that we can't go out in daylight. The rest is bullshit, fabricated to alienate us and stimulate fear in the masses. Or just as offensive, the fiction used to create some kind of mystique for bored humans who think the dark side is a fun place to visit."
"Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil."
"It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill."
"I think another problem people have is they are always searching for that high, and they don't realize they can get that same high with that same person again."
"The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people."
"The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts."
"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence."
"So, it, of course, makes one wonder how many other people there might be who are completely innocent, who have been sent by the U.S. to countries where they've been interrogated, and in some instances it seems tortured."
"Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy."
"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."
"I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned."
"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency."
"Life throws some curveballs at you and you go where it takes you."
"As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game."
"To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him. Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference."
"A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. You need the whole piano: the richness of the whole human experience. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human."
"If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness."
"Man is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."
"Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know."
"I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining."
"Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement."
"Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light."
"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."
"When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did."
"There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most."
"If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology."
"My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful."
"Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression."
"If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive."
"If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate."
"In some stories, it's easy. The moral of "The Three Bears," for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house." The moral of "Snow White" is "Never eat apples." The moral of World War One is "Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand."
"Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response."
"Hurricane Katrina, coupled with Hurricane Rita, which came promptly on Katrina's heels, claimed more than 1,200 American lives. Together, they caused more than $200 billion in damage."
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