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Quotes by American Authors
"I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it."
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."
"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance."
"Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity."
"A man is what he thinks about all day long."
"Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem."
"I figured my body always would be able to repair itself. I think all of us believe that - until you begin to age and get hit with deteriorating joints."
"Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss."
"Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define."
"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent."
"Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."
"Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other."
"Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries."
"The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team."
"If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do."
"The shortest distance between two people is a story."
"Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson."
"I was always talking about what I could and would do, and you would always make rhymes about the competion even though we werent thinking about competition."
"A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested."
"I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and make them right."
"And stop talking in that puffed-up way they taught you. Words aren't brains, you know."
"The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear."
"You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle."
"Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference."
"Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization."
"Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them."
"Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure."
"My point is: maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through your fingers. So much time you can waste it.But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know."
"You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough."
"Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that."
"Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened."
"The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people."
"God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom ho named Eve; and this man and woman were given the power from Jehovah God to reproduce their kind, that is to say, to cause conception and birth of children."
"If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully."
"We shall tax and tax, and spend and spend, and elect and elect."
"If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism."
"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."
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