Quotes about america
american-novelist claiming easier memoirs tend truth
I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir. Armistead Maupin
american-novelist good
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
american-novelist decided faith human less nature
I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.
american-novelist believed closer truth
I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it.
american-musician
We would turn everything into songs in those days. Arlo Guthrie
american-astronaut good
They say any landing you can walk away from is a good one. Alan Shepard
american-astronaut
It's been a long way, but we're here.
american-astronaut
This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century. John Glenn
american-journalist business
The way to write is well, and how is your own business. A. J. Liebling
america birthplace harry tourist truman
Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras. A. Whitney Brown
american-musician anonymous needed realized self somebody street tried
I realized that I needed to be anonymous on the street and somebody else on the stage. I had tried to put my street self on the stage, but what they want is an actor on stage. Bobby Darin
american-musician burns father omit symbol word
Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol.
american-musician floor holes
I drilled holes in the floor of the club, and it's sinking.
american-educator effects enhanced side
There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third. Timothy Leary
american-author based concerns issues reactions
The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that are based on issues of identity and representation. Jhumpa Lahiri
american-poet reaction
The reaction has been overwhelming, and I'm just getting used to it. I think I actually, though, could get used to it for a long time. Stephen Dunn
america certainly country efficient germany number produces rate saw until
The rate of growth of the management skills of any country is inversely proportional to the number of MBAs. Germany produces no MBAs, but America used to produce MBAs by the millions, and you saw the German economy, until at least the '90s, was certainly more efficient than the American economy. Jairam Ramesh
america food junk sale school time
There is junk food for sale in just about every school in America. This is a time when we should be molding our kids' habits.
america gift offering
There is a vibrancy in Africa. We are offering that gift back to America.
america blood flow streets sure
wanted to make sure blood would flow in the streets of America.
american-artist communication knew walt
Walt put everything he knew about communication with images into the park, so it was very familiar. John Hench
america bones change looking totally
Wal-Mart has made no bones about being the place small-town America shops. They're looking to totally change that, and that's a tall order.
american-activist aware beginning looks lovely shall soil source whose
Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?
american-activist concerning inquiring proceed shall throughout
In inquiring concerning the benefits of the plan proposed, I shall proceed upon the supposition that female seminaries will be patronized throughout our country.
american-inventor completed develop dropped few motor power rapidly
When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power. Orville Wright
american-inventor case crushing landed landing uneasy wing
In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
american-inventor due efficient largely machine quickly services shop work
The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.
american-inventor machine york
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
american-inventor decide motor released run sure until wire
When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won.
american-inventor dart ended hundred sudden
A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.
american-inventor ground hundred laid north smooth track
We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building.
american-inventor height life machine men picture reached risen saving snapped taking track
One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.
american-inventor block design motor six testing time weeks
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.