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Quotes by American Authors
"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you."
"I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist."
"Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect."
"There was some scene in The Blues Brothers movie, when they had the chicken wire across the front of the stage, and it was almost like that. They had a big guard rail around the stage, which kept the college kids from getting on... we had some good times."
"My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are safe."
"Acting in 'Star Wars' I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were."
"Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity."
"In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since."
"I want minimum information given with maximum politeness."
"Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10."
"I was named Beekeeper of the Year by the Florida State Beekeeping Association."
"Materialism is an identity crisis."
"Nobody could've ever known I was positive because I didn't know."
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
"A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God."
"That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities."
"Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future."
"Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush."
"Throughout the world today there are people who are enduring cruelties and persecution because of their Christian faith. We must pray for them, and for ourselves, so that in our own dying hour God will give us grace to endure until the end, anticipating the certainty of His glory to come."
"I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful."
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."
"[His] leaving had stabbed her heart. This organ was not inclined to forgive her for vulnerability."
"Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life."
"I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years."
"The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship."
"Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination."
"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."
"It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares?"
"I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team."
"I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it."
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