Quotes about american-author
american-author both
Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users? Clifford Stoll
american-author inclined people
People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her. Beverly Cleary
american-author gave men platoon possibly ran
When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life. David Eddings
american-author felt god
Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. Alice Walker
american-author hardest people
To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off. Nancy Friday
american-author
The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
american-author birth helped saw seeing stopped
When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
american-author intangible lack near realities
There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters. Natalie Clifford Barney
american-author life
Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to. Anne McCaffrey
american-author education schooling
I never let schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain
american-author cultivated neither nor saying until whom word
Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy. Napoleon Hill
american-author man mind
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
american-author blueprints cherish children dreams ultimate visions
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
american-author best foreign though
I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do. Anthony Bourdain
american-author
I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders. Vincent Bugliosi
american-author trying
I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination.
american-author cases court felony jury lost successful trials
Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
american-author biggest clinton committed crimes five former justices lying media ok president pursue sexual year
It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story.
american-author close court insane pick supreme whether won
If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
american-author care falls human life played quiet till
When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. William Temple
american-author beauty destroy discourage unless using
You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
american-author great
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
american-author bred easily man men
Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.
american-author case create creation god permission permit problem
The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?
american-author best folly wisdom worst
Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
american-author cannot creature neither nor receiving sensible
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
american-author hard
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
american-author conversation factors
The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
american-author attention books help mystery reviewed seven stay trying women writers
In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women. Sara Paretsky
american-author work
Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may. Nathaniel Parker Willis
american-author among present ten
At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
american-author cure human remedy
We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings. Helen Keller
american-author cannot felt
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.