Quotes about america
america appears confused next sexual suppose
I suppose if I wanted to be the girl next door, I could have been. I think America is confused by someone who appears to be sexual and spiritual at the same time. Sally Kirkland
american-novelist dictate happy nature truth
The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved. Sue Grafton
american-novelist invented though
Henry is entirely invented though by now I feel he's as real as anyone I know.
american-novelist kinsey mind movies
Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is.
american-novelist list nearly related sat tied until
At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO.
american-novelist high men wearing
If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.
american-novelist changed faster kinsey learns older passed reader sure twelve
I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip.
american-novelist
You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you. Vicki Baum
american-novelist cold north success
Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
american-comedian best guys job left
It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming. Victoria Jackson
american-athlete experience gives hard lesson teacher
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
american-athlete learning people trade tricks
Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
american-businessman cannot learned people taking themselves
What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you. Vernon Jordan
american-businessman black stand true
I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
american-soldier
I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all. Vernon A. Walters
american-activist principles subjects
My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily. Victoria Woodhull
american-athlete paper scrap signed united
I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it? Vida Blue
american-editor consistency jewel men paste
Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish. William Allen White
american-editor liberty
Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
american-novelist earth life
But this is life on earth, you can't have everything. William Goldman
american-novelist
The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.
america assumed capital fiction future inherently lost science spell
I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my childhood has had a capital F - it was assumed to be an American Future because America was the future. The Future was assumed to be inherently heroic, and a lot of other things, as well. William Gibson
american-poet changeless indeed weep
Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep. William C. Bryant
american-businessman
We don't ask research to do what it was never meant to do, and that is to get an idea. William Bernbach
american-novelist caught recovered seldom though work
He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played. William Gaddis
american-novelist follows human left man
What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?
american-writer leadership responsibility
It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute. William Pollard
american-businessman bad becomes later likely public sooner
Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government. William Lyon Mackenzie King
american-educator
If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens. William Lyon Phelps
american-educator belief founded grow happier happiest life thinks time
The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
american-educator ease either freedom happiest happiness individual physical truly
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.
america drive far fell learned meaning national remember true
From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed. Bill Frist
american-journalist lets work
I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies. Bill Moyers