American Quotes

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!

Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden, and no one else trying to hurt America.

I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

There should be a moral principle there that says, let's green the ghetto first. Let's go to those communities where they have the least ability to pay for that retrofit and make sure they get that help, make sure they get that support. And give the young people standing on those corners the opportu

Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because those green dollars are the hardest working dollars in the history of American politics. That same dollar that is being used to cut energy bills,

I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces.

I have nothing against interviews. I don't pursue them. When people I work for deem it appropriate, I'm perfectly willing to serve.