Quotes about america
american-musician rhyming thesaurus
No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you. Dorothy Fields
american-musician hopefully
We've accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it'll be all right. I really don't want to cry, but I can't help it.
american-athlete time
That's the way I like it because there's no time to have nerves about it. You just run out and do it. Doug Flutie
american-writer takes
It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account. Douglas Hofstadter
american-author media regular
Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media. David Brock
american-director both job men
If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless. Darryl F. Zanuck
american-novelist filled last though time
Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. Betty Smith
american-judge decided future
I decided that the only way there would be a future was to start to cut back.
american-activist forbids human insist invaded life principle sacred society themselves valid whatever
I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can. Benjamin Tucker
america course learned legal looking marriage wonder
I've learned that most of gay America is coupled up, or looking to be. No wonder gay marriage has such traction. So many of us are already in it, so of course we want the legal benefits. Bruce Vilanch
american-journalist charged knew prosecutor required whether
The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this. Barbara Olson
american-director atmosphere audience loose odd register somehow
It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments that somehow mean a lot to an audience when they really register right. Barry Levinson
american-artist telling
You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace. Bill Sienkiewicz
american-businessman business leadership
You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
american-businessman best form matter problem reduced
No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.
american-author face gift pictures
It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards. Gregg Easterbrook
american-author behave beings human
It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.
american-athlete bell
When that bell rang, I wanted to go out there and do my thing. Gerry Cooney
america assets best diverse environment national people prepare
The best thing we can do is prepare people to lead in a much more diverse environment and see that as one of our national assets and one of the things that makes America strong. Gerald Chertavian
american-activist defence effected initiation principle state though
Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.
american-musician interested listening number people realized
I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online. Edgar Winter
america caribbean freedom leave man mark pacific reason swimming
There's no one here in America swimming the Pacific Ocean - or the Atlantic, or the Caribbean - to leave this place. The reason why is because of the freedom. Freedom for a man to mark out his own destiny. It's not, 'Hey, you have so much.' Luke Scott
american-artist human maybe side
Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. Edward Hopper
american-novelist atom rather sleepy
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. Jack London
american-comedian
It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all. James Thurber
american-artist art far goes love
One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. Andrew Wyeth
american-businessman business great himself leadership wants
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. Andrew Carnegie
american-musician best change gimmicks
Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with. Garth Brooks
american-journalist frauds
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself. Gamaliel Bailey
american-photographer committed deeply environmental nature
These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message. Galen Rowell
american-photographer believe cognitive constructs directly imagery represent scientists system view visual
I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing.
american-photographer human resonates viewing
When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
american-photographer dozen editor editors geographic john landscape looked national pictures promised run trail
I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards.