Quotes by American Authors - Page 518

I'm feeling full of tiny princes, bustling to get out into the world and start plotting against one another.
Christopher Moore
Do you find this...distracting?
Suzanne Collins
I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something
Eddie Vedder
It is my right to be rich, happy, and successful. I AM completely solvent and building my wealth everyday!
Ron Barrow
What would you say to yourself if you could actually meet a younger you?
Doug Dillon
I got the Eye of the Tiger The FireDancing through the fire Cause I am a Champion!And your gonna hear me Roar-Roar
Katy Perry
Theodore Roosevelt came to Dekota to experience the dying of one age with the slaying of a rare buffalo and the dawning of the West's industrial age.
H.W. Brands
How could it be possible that there were that many nerve endings all in one place?
Rainbow Rowell
I lost Susy thirteen years ago; I lost her mother--her incomparable mother!--five and a half years ago; Clara has gone away to live in Europe and now I have lost Jean. How poor I am, who was once so rich! . . . Jean lies yonder, I sit here; we are strangers under our own roof; we kissed hands good-by at this door last night--and it was forever, we never suspecting it. She lies there, and I sit here--writing, busying myself, to keep my heart from breaking. How dazzling the sunshine is flooding the hills around! It is like a mockery. Seventy-four years ago twenty-four days. Seventy-four years old yesterday. Who can estimate my age today?
Mark Twain
He was smiling that smile I truly loved.
Heather Fraser Brainerd
Since well before the Kung's engine noise first penetrated the forest, a conversation of sorts has been unfolding in this lonesome hollow. It is not a language like Russian or Chinese but it is a language nonetheless, and it is older than the forest. The crows speak it; the dog speaks it; the tiger speaks it, and so do the men--some more fluently than others.
John Vaillant
More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.
Will Rogers
As soon as (Teddy Roosevelt) received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything to the last minute. Prepared so far ahead "freed his mind" from worry and facilitated fresh, lucid thought.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Eww," Jack said, and then giggled. "Yeah, and a Paris Hilton doll that had an optional brain."Aphrodite raised her brow at him. "Don't go all crazy. There are some things even Paris Hilton can't buy.
P.C. Cast
I don't need to see the trail to know you're at the end of it. My grandfather's compass may not work, but mine is still true.
Diana Peterfreund
‎I love even to see the domestic animals reassert their native rights — any evidence that they have not wholly lost their original wild habits and vigor; as when my neighbor's cow breaks out of her pasture early in the Spring and boldly swims the river, a cold grey tide, twenty-five or thirty rods wide, swollen by the melted snow. It is the Buffalo crossing the Mississippi.
Henry David Thoreau
The main things are the plain things, and the plain things are the main things.
Alistair Begg
Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.
David McCullough
Graveyards were the one place Belladonna never saw ghosts.
Helen Stringer
Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
Cherie Carter-Scott
We live on a little island of the articulable, which we tend to mistake for reality itself.
Marilynne Robinson
Writing unlocks the heart, mind and soul that we may be receptive to God's blessings.
Peggy Toney Horton
During Uthman's caliphate, a Muslim embassy was sent to China to establish diplomatic relations
Firas Alkhateeb
...because of the foulness of her mother's emotional river, a current which ran swift, changing its path without warning...
Tamara Rose Blodgett
Any conscious or unconscious thought, love, or actions will bring more energy in your life.
Debasish Mridha
Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.
Jeff Bezos
We are what we adapt to.
Carter Stroud
It's mind-boggling how many different worlds people live in on this one planet.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Give me a one-handed Economist. All my economists say 'on hand...', then 'but on the other...
Harry Truman
The cure of even one solid cancer in adults, Farber knew, would singularly revolutionize oncology. It would provide the most concrete proof that this was a winnable war.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
God gave man the strength to conquer the world, but God gave woman a vagina to conquer man
Treasure Blue
If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model and the San Fernando Valley is her teenybopper sister, then New York is their cousin. Her hair is dyed autumn or aubergine or Egyptian henna, depending on her mood. Her skin is pale as frost and she wears beautiful Jil Sander suits and Prada pumps on which she walks faster than a speeding taxi (when it is caught in rush hour, that is). Her lips are some unlikely shade of copper or violet, courtesy of her local MAC drag queen makeup consultant.
Francesca Lia Block
I was his exception, and as much as I had tried to fight my feelings, he was mine.
Jamie McGuire
I interviewed my dad on video in his final weeks. When I asked about his work and finding meaning through helping others, he responded, "I don't think you can be focused on, 'Oh gee, I want to make a difference.' It has to be spontaneous. If it's not...there's some kind of egotistical thing going on. That's a red flag. You hope you impact people on the deepest level you are capable of at the time. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't. You're trying.
Lisa J. Shannon
O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
John Irving
You are the author of your success, daily writing a new page to the book of your life. Everyday you live, you write another page of success for your life. Practice at becoming an excellent person step-by-step, at what you want. Rome wasn't build in day, so have patience as you build your life of confidence and success.
Mark LaMoure
We all encounter things that may seem dim and puzzling at first, but when we actively explore them, we find bold, undauntable light igniting the way from the inside. From within.
Kayla Severson
I've won Satan's lottery.
Christopher Moore
I love you, music man. You are my happily ever after.
Rachel Harris
We have to know the truth about the past to discover out future.
Patti Callahan Henry
Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the beginning the Poets and Philosophers taught the world to see. Then after that any form of education was no longer free.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
Unless institutional power reinforces the hurt and prejudice suffered by a group, it is not oppression. By definition, a person of color cannot be racist, or a woman sexist, because they do not have the institutionalized power to act on their prejudices. Also, by definition, all white people are racist, not just because of the personal attitudes that we usually think of as racist, but because of the privilege white skin brings in our society. Whites cannot say they are not racist because they are born into a society that teaches racism and reinforces white privilege every day even before they can be aware of it. Whites can choose, however, to be active antiracists, which means making a commitment to a lifelong process of learning to recognize racism in themselves and in the institutions they are part of and taking steps to stop it.
Linda Stout
How doe we define the energy of thought versus the energy of action.
Meg Rosoff
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.
Logan Pearsall Smith
If they do it often, it isn't a mistake; it’s just their behavior.
Steve Maraboli
Don’t let your idea of God be limited to the imagination of others. Don’t let them define your God and don’t let them tell you how to express your faith.
Steve Maraboli
Bigness comes from doing many small things well. ... Individually they are not very dramatic transactions. Together though they add up.
Edward S. Finkelstein
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Can I dwell on what I scarce remember? I held a castle on the Marches once, and there was a woman I was pledged to marry, but I could not find that castle today, nor tell you the color of that woman's hair. Who knighted me, old friend? What were my favorite foods? It all fades. Sometimes I think I was born on the bloody grass in that grove of ash, with the taste of fire in my mouth and a hole in my chest. Are you my mother, Thoros?
George R.R. Martin
Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3
Erich Maria Remarque
I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a by-product. The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.
Steve Martin
Sociaty is made up of a vast array of communities and experiences and though you don't have to like them all, all of them are significant pieces comprising the whole of humanity. As such, all of them are worthy of respectful consideration.
Chauntelle Tibbals
I'm man enough to know when to scream.
Obert Skye
Be always sure you are right, then go ahead.
David Crockett
Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.
Ray Bradbury
Breathe, Believe and Bounce Back
Julie Clinton
In the moment when he died at my hand he had his own heart's desire—not the actual future, but a hope for the best possible future, one that he could not himself imagine.
Dexter Palmer
Sillman looked at his interrogator with hopeless eyes. 'I think while I was passed out, I dreamed about my mom's gingerbread cookies. Maybe the guy who knocked on the glass was eatin' one.' 'Mm,' said Peace-not-War. 'Well. That's helpful. We'll put an APB out on the Gingerbread Man. I'm not hopeful it'll do us much good, though. Word on the street is you can't catch him.
Joe Hill