Quotes about american-author
american-author trying
I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination. Vincent Bugliosi
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.
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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.
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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.
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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 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.
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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. Willa Cather
american-author predators
We don't protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species. Andrew Vachss
american-author based four gentleman house indeed memories university
This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years old, at the time, and so I actually don't have any memories of this gentleman. Jhumpa Lahiri
american-author feminine men virile women
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. Susan Sontag
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Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again. Sarah Ban Breathnach
american-author precede striving struggle
Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.
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You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country.
american-author came female likable private time
I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life.
american-author pick piece public trying wants
I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private. Sandra Cisneros
american-author basic
The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.
american-author best happy hobby money
The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.
american-author complement money
Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.
american-author cheating good mediocrity stay
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
american-author believe continue genuine possibilities
Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy. William Greider
american-author bloody designed finest less populace reassure rituals
As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.
american-author country
In this country you can say aloud or publish just about anything you like.