Quotes about america
american-comedian embrace pilot rather
Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light. Damon Wayans
american-comedian raised
My father is a Jehovah's Witness, and he raised us under a very strict hand.
american-comedian food less time
The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.
american-comedian stops
Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.
american-athlete
If you never give up, you'll be successful. Dan O'Brien
american-critic art great time toward work
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. Daniel Barenboim
american-comedian analyzing citizen collect commentary funny life professor silly wonderful
We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane, and now it is pretty funny - the idea of commentary for a silly kid's movie, you know? Dana Carvey
america boys coming duel fact fought holland led life surprised
Little things about the Pilgrims surprised me. For instance, the fact that the first duel in America was fought at Plymouth by two teenaged boys over a girl. The life the Pilgrims led in Holland before coming to America also surprised me. Ann Rinaldi
american-activist
If we ever get to the polls once, you will never get us home. Anna Howard Shaw
american-activist desirable either form
Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.
america bracket either english-actress hard thinks work
Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn't work like that. Anna Friel
american-musician
I don't think we will use the 80s glossy sound again. Ann Wilson
american-poet
If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance. Anne Bradstreet
america congress country deal economic incapable plan president seem sort third
America is living through the third economic revolution and our country doesn't really have a plan on how to deal with it, and when it does - like the president sort of outlined when he first got here - we have a Congress who seem incapable of acting on it. Andy Stern
american-activist women
Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered? Angelina Grimke
american-musician forum mattered particular sit supreme terms whether
What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court. Anita Hill
american-musician close experience occasion telling
Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting.
american-musician hearings integrity race
If you think about the way the hearings were structured, the hearings were really about Thomas' race and my gender.
american-musician
It would have been more comfortable to remain silent.
america knew mike tyson
I knew I'd conquered America when Mike Tyson told me I was one mean lady. Anne Robinson
american-author written
I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet. Anne McCaffrey
american-author good
A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.
american-author
Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
american-journalist becoming country dependent oil remains
The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce. Armstrong Williams
american-musician felt rock roll wholesome
I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music. Aretha Franklin
american-journalist approved bring closer comparison everyday fears pale parent
But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children. Arianna Huffington
american-journalist beneath fear intense kids love lurking
There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.
american-poet freedom liberation mind
There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream. Archibald MacLeish
american-novelist ask people precisely suggested terry
I know that when Terry and I were together, 10 years ago, he did not appreciate it when people would ask him what it is like being partnered with a celebrity. Precisely because it suggested that he had no value. Armistead Maupin
american-novelist fulfilling heard imagine lives mean writer
I can't imagine a more fulfilling thing for a writer than that you've made a strong impact on the lives of other people. Just because I've heard it before does not mean I don't want to hear it one more time.
american-novelist hook maybe
When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace.
american-novelist amusement included jokes mysteries
I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.
american-novelist begins breakup gabriel greater happen interest places reveal terry
It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.