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Quotes by American Authors
"We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime."
"It's rare that I actually have a story in my head. I have events or 'what's the next move?' Like, Maggie, 'where's she going to go in this story, where's she going to end up?' Then the story has to fill in the in-between, and that comes as I'm starting it."
"A company is only as good as the people it keeps."
"I love mankind; it's people I can't stand."
"That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise."
"The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much."
"If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail."
"The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers."
"A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend."
"It's a great view from here. I'm having the time of my life."
"Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them."
"There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self."
"To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee."
"Education is the foundation upon which we build our future."
"Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions."
"I've been asked about this constantly, and I compare it to how if you're walking down the street and some schizo guy comes up to you and vomits on you: You wouldn't be hurt by that, you'd just think it's weird."
"I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don't think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today."
"Everybody wants to save the Earth, nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes."
"You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that."
"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."
"All that violence in the world, we need to stop that."
"Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation."
"Corona Light has had very faithful stewardship from us from the very beginning in 1989."
"I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines."
"Generous leaders are servant leaders. They always come with open hands and an open heart."
"We as Americans of Latin descent are just as American as anyone else of any other descent."
"We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another of God's teachings on morality: if a man discovers on his wedding night that his bride is not a virgin, he must stone her to death on her father's doorstep (Deuteronomy 22:13-21)."
"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation."
"This is a tough environment, and it's tough for everybody."
"I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead."
"I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter."
"Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster."
"As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty " to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy."
"Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction -- Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn ... No -- Gatsby turned out all right in the end; it was what prayed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and the short-winded elations of men."
"I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her."
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