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Quotes by American Authors
"Her smile increased. She had perfect white regular teeth; Irish, Juliana decided. Only Irish blood could give that jawline such femininity."
"There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary."
"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way."
"When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't."
"Christendom appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to mankind."
"You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering."
"The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted."
"If the police ever try to pick me up, Michael Jackson told me I can hide out at his house."
"In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it."
"The concept of encounter also enables us to make clearer the important distinction between talent and creativity. Talent may well have its neurological correlates and can be studied as 'given to a person. A man or woman may have talent whether he or she uses it or not; talent can probably be measured in the person as such. But creativity can be seen only in the act. If we were purists, we would not speak of a 'creative person, but only of a creative act."
"Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful."
"Boy, you gotta be real sick to get this much attention."
"People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?'"
"Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes."
"Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into."
"I think racing and riding are two different elements of cycling. You either want to or not depending on what you want to get out of it."
"We've already seen how it's going to come in, in a truck, like it did at Oklahoma City at the Federal building or it's going to come in by plane, like it did at the World Trade Center."
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
"You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish."
"You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need."
"I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues."
"It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them."
"Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become."
"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."
"I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something."
"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible."
"Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis."
"Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best."
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