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Quotes by American Authors

"You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know."
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Jim Bakker
"You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know."
God,
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"Toots said to me, 'I gotta hand it to him, thought, when he got into the big money, he came by and handed me the cash, saying, 'Here's what I'm sure I owe you.'"
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Audrey Meadows
"Toots said to me, 'I gotta hand it to him, thought, when he got into the big money, he came by and handed me the cash, saying, 'Here's what I'm sure I owe you.'"
"The Women of the Storm made a big difference for me, because it really put some real-life faces with the situation, and not just politicians."
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Lynn Westmoreland
"The Women of the Storm made a big difference for me, because it really put some real-life faces with the situation, and not just politicians."
"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them."
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John C. Maxwell
"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them."
"It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us."
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Erykah Badu
"It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us."
"You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own."
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Mark Victor Hansen
"You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own."
"Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future."
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future."
"If you want to win, don't just dream it. Act on it."
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Debasish Mridha
"If you want to win, don't just dream it. Act on it."
"About the only other thing I'd want would be a wider neck. My fingers are so fat that sometimes I deaden the string next to the one I'm fretting."
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Terry Kath
"About the only other thing I'd want would be a wider neck. My fingers are so fat that sometimes I deaden the string next to the one I'm fretting."
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"Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation."
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D. Elton Trueblood
"Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation."
"Like a floating feather in the air, take life very lightly and joyfully adjust to the flow of life."
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Debasish Mridha
"Like a floating feather in the air, take life very lightly and joyfully adjust to the flow of life."
"Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well."
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Anthony Anderson
"Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well."
"I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure."
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Max Cannon
"I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure."
"In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection."
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Carol Gilligan
"In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection."
"American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has."
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Don McLean
"American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has."
"Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies."
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Antoine Fuqua
"Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies."
"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."
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Muriel Rukeyser
"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."
"Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation."
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Will Rogers
"Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation."
"It's great playing someone who is not like me at all. I'm really a nice girl, so it's fun to be a bitch, then come home and be myself again. When I meet people now, they're surprised that I'm a good person."
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Rachel Bilson
"It's great playing someone who is not like me at all. I'm really a nice girl, so it's fun to be a bitch, then come home and be myself again. When I meet people now, they're surprised that I'm a good person."
"I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me."
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Faith Ringgold
"I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me."
"Love is a given, hatred is acquired."
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Douglas Horton
"Love is a given, hatred is acquired."
"Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer."
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Julian Casablancas
"Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer."
"Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being."
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Michael Bolton
"Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being."
"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."
"Our country is not in crisis; there are no tanks in the streets. No matter what the outcome of the president's situation, life in America will go on. Our lives will continue to be filled with practical matters, not constitutional ones."
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Jennifer Dunn
"Our country is not in crisis; there are no tanks in the streets. No matter what the outcome of the president's situation, life in America will go on. Our lives will continue to be filled with practical matters, not constitutional ones."
"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day."
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Jim Rohn
"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day."
"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value."
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Alan Greenspan
"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value."
"From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away."
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Raymond Chandler
"From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away."
"The most important sign in Matthew has to be the restoration of the Jews to the land in the rebirth of Israel."
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Hal Lindsey
"The most important sign in Matthew has to be the restoration of the Jews to the land in the rebirth of Israel."
"I highly recommend tantric sex workshops."
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Sheryl Lee
"I highly recommend tantric sex workshops."
Sex,
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"Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny."
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Cameron Diaz
"Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny."
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"I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism."
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James Cameron
"I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism."
"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it."
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William Arthur Ward
"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it."
"I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways."
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Mo Rocca
"I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways."
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"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."
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Jim Rohn
"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."
"I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy."
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Jason Alexander
"I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy."
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"Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me."
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Woody Harrelson
"Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me."
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"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
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Robert Frost
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
"What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour."
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Walter Martin
"What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour."
"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality."
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Nikola Tesla
"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality."
"We've had some really good guest stars. But I have to go with Alec Baldwin as my favorite. He is so neat and such a movie star. He's handsome and quirky. I was in heaven the week he was on the set."
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Nikki Cox
"We've had some really good guest stars. But I have to go with Alec Baldwin as my favorite. He is so neat and such a movie star. He's handsome and quirky. I was in heaven the week he was on the set."
"We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes."
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Leona Helmsley
"We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes."
"To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this."
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David Foster Wallace
"To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this."
"The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces."
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Jackson Pollock
"The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces."
"Sports are a microcosm of society."
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Billie Jean King
"Sports are a microcosm of society."
"God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability."
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Neal A. Maxwell
"God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability."
"Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make."
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Ruth Benedict
"Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make."
"In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism."
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Spiro T. Agnew
"In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism."
"If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive."
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Audre Lorde
"If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive."
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"When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man."
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Stanley Kubrick
"When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man."
Man,
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