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Quotes by American Authors

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation."

"I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it."

"I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy."

"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."


"We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes."

"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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