American Quotes

I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.

I was born in Orange, California and I grew up in Huntington Beach. I started skateboarding when I was five and continued to do so off and on over the years.

I wanted to be looked at for the skateboarder that I was. I didn't want to be the 36-year-old skateboarder who's still holding on while owning a company at the same time. I wanted to make my mark and travel and accomplish a few things here and there and then get out.

I grew up skateboarding; it was fun. I didn't think about money, I didn't know how much professional skateboarders made. I just knew that if I became a professional skateboarder, I would achieve a lot and get to travel and do these great things.

Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more i

I was a little nerdy, but I got along with everybody. I had fun at school - skateboarding, surfing, getting kicked out of class for making too much noise.

Celebrities say they date other celebrities because they have the same job. But I think they just like dating famous people. Celebrities attract each other, like cattle.

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow.

Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

I wrote it three times - with a Thesaurus.

I wasn't naked, I was completely covered by a blue spotlight.

I have everything I had 20 years ago, only it's all a little lower.

God is love, but get it in writing.

This is my present, you know. My present from Mother.

Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.

God will protect us, but to make sure, carry a heavy club.

She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to.