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Quotes by American Authors
"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air."
"The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."
"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased."
"I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done."
"To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others."
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."
"To me, the excitement is in ordering a fine shotgun, going through the process that everybody who has bought one has gone through for 100 years. You order it, you make a significant down payment, and then you wait three or four years for the gun to be custom-made for you."
"The idea we came up with, well before we left, was something we coined Performance Literature. Excuse the use of that second word, because I realize it's presumptuous. Also, excuse the first word, and the term in general."
"Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold."
"The mind provides a person with the mental fortitude to survive any physical or spiritual crisis. For the present time, I am satisfying myself by building a little shop in the back of my mind, a place where stillness resides and a jangle of thoughts can come and visit. I am building a room of my own, a room that I can retreat to when needed, a place where I am always welcomed regardless of the trappings of this ordinary and finite life. I do not need much as far as earthy rewards, but I certainly will not spurn food, drink, companionship, love, affection, friendship, or other physical, emotional, spiritual, aesthetic, and sensuous pleasures that find their way to my humble doorstep."
"When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again."
"There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child."
"Sometimes I'll be playing along and find I'm missing the strings. I'll worry about it for days until I notice that the pick has worn down to half its size."
"Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers."
"Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word."
"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."
"Fear is the chain that wraps around a free man's leg."
"Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger."
"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable."
"Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts."
"We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge."
"They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette."
"It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year."
"If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it."
"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are."
"Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization."
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
"When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records."
"I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blood, man."
"Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure."
"An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information."
"Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness."
"They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me."
"The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination."
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