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Quotes by American Authors
"Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality."
"My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English."
"The more we focus on using renewable fuels, the less we are dependent upon foreign oil."
"This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him."
"I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it."
"The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it."
"As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked."
"Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful."
"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers."
"Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language."
"All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians."
"Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss."
"So I figured I'd leave the area, because I had no ties there anyway except for this girl I was seeing. We had conflicting attitudes: I really wasn't into meditating and she wasn't really into being alive. I told her I knew when I was going to die because my birth certificate has an expiration date."
"American shows don't always translate, but this one has and speaking for myself I'm quite glad for it."
"The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards."
"My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right."
"The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements."
"Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back."
"Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering."
"It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution."
"Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee."
"No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true."
"What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm."
"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."
"The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love."
"I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.""
"As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less."
"I don't really think they saw anything in me, except the fact that I was interested in it. Some of the kids would miss a week here and miss a week there, I think they could see that I really enjoyed it."
"I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me."
"We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction."
"How different things might be if, rather than saying "I think I'm in love," we were saying "I've connected with someone in a way that makes me think I'm on the way to knowing love." Or if instead of saying "I am in love" we say "I am loving" or "I will love." Our patterns around romantic love are unlikely to change if we do not change our language."
"The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder."
"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up."
"Because one look into his eyes, and she was drowning in what existed there and didn't want to surface."
"I whisper over to myself the way of loss, the names of the dead. One by one, we lose our loved ones, our friends, our powers of work and pleasure, our landmarks, the days of our allotted time. One by one, the way we lose them, they return to us and are treasured up in our hearts. Grief affirms, them, preserves them, sets the cost. Finally a man stands up alone, scoured and charred like a burnt tree, having lost everything and (at the cost only of its loss) found everything, and is ready to go. Now I am ready."
"Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees."
"Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself."
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