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Quotes by American Authors
"Who rules the world? - It's for sure, ain't you!"
"A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there."
"For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom."
"Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich."
"It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators."
"The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work."
"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money."
"It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals."
"Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value."
"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."
"Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment."
"Life is an adventure in forgiveness."
"When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing."
"And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations."
"Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?"
"Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials."
"Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe."
"I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures."
"It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else."
"Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct."
"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer."
"My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business."
"In advertising, sex sells. But only if you're selling sex."
"The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but much mixed blood."
"He opened up the tent where I was actually literally bent over a chair getting my crack touched up and I turned around and said, 'don't come in here Bryan, you don't need to be seeing this!' and he said, 'ooh, you need some white wine.' He handed me a glass of wine."
"Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another."
"Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality."
"I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide."
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