American Quotes

I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

I want to live my life, not record it.

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

I am a woman above everything else.

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

If you mess up your children, nothing else you do really matters.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

The only routine with me is no routine at all.

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.

I have been so fortunate and I really am appreciative of the success I've had.

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report.

We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.

We are giving assurance to the American families that help is on its way.

Today, we say the only thing we have to fear is four more years of George Bush.

Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.