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Quotes by American Authors
"When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit."
"To all my little Hulkamaniacs, say your prayers, take your vitamins and you will never go wrong."
"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."
"Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them."
"The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still."
"Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on."
"You need the words, you need the script, you need the material, you need the commitment, you need the passion, it's like we depend on writers, we depend on producers, directors depend on us and once things are in the divine order as they happen."
"President Johnson had a habit of throwing dollars at a question and the question would disappear."
"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."
"It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge."
"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
"I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage."
"The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best."
"Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless."
"I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window."
"The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them."
"Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit."
"Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days."
"Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth."
"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more."
"If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket."
"Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide."
"Obviously, I've seen what the press has done to my cousins. I would never let that rule my life, but I'm not the kind of person to rebel or do things. I don't know. I don't let the potential for bad press dictate who I am, but I keep that in mind. How can you not?"
"Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess."
"A lot of people say to me, 'Why did you kill Christ?' I dunno, it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know."
"I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet!"
"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error."
"We've done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA."
"We fill our lives with meaning by serving endlessly and by learning to transcend our consciousness to a higher consciousness."
"I had 3 brothers, 2 died early, and one of them was living a good long time."
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