American Quotes

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

We're allowing every Eric Harris, every troubled kid out there, to become the next Tim McVeigh.

My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.

I believe in nothing.

Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate.

We did talk about cheese on our first date.

Tennis lets you talk while you're playing.

One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.

I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee.

Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.

Awards shows are my greatest inducement to get back into shape.

When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself... but when I got the role of Lois, I stopped thinking about my looks and was just myself.

For me, there's a big difference between having a baby in your 20s and having a baby in your 40s.

I think it's a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.

My family has been around campaigns for a long time. It's something you really have to be sure that you alone want to do. Because if not, if you don't want to do it, that will just blow through the surface at some point, and people can tell. And when people can tell, it's all over.

My decision to look seriously at elected office is grounded in a deep commitment to public service and my experience - both my own and that of my family - in finding just, practical, and bipartisan solutions to difficult challenges.

It's my name on the ballot, and it's me running this race. I'm the one doing this. Not my father and not my grandfather and not my great-uncle and not President Kennedy.

Republicans aren't bad people. They've got some views that are legitimate... and I'd like to think they believe the same of me.

I'm extremely proud of my family's record of public service to Massachusetts and the nation.

I believe this country was built on a simple promise: that each of us deserves a fair shot.

I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.

I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.

I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, 'doesn't play well with others.'

Guys will take one pair of jeans, five T-shirts and three pair of socks and that'll get you by for 10 weeks.

You're never going to see the fat Elvis in me. People I admired like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and John Belushi all died at 27. I've got jeans older than that.

You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me.