American Quotes

For us... you know, we're not The Beatles.

Everybody can dig The Beatles, but why should everybody dig us?

Carl, Dennis and Brian are brothers, and Mike Love's a cousin.

But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing.

Brian came back in on the road and Al stayed, but Al's the original member of the group.

Before I joined The Beach Boys, I was working at Columbia Records as a producer, and saw The Byrds come in and do their first overdub before Terry even met them.

I really dig the scene that's happening now, I really do, because there might be a lot of bad things going on, but if out of all of those bad things ten per cent of the groovy part of it stays, wow... you can't beat that.

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

Whatever you have, spend less.

To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

You can't hit what you can't see.

I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

We're born man, woman and sexual beings.

We learn our sexual preferences and orientations.

Sure! Why should any experts be the arbiters... That's like telling someone they can't be a vegetarian.

In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.

We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, 'the best in the world.'

Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration.

Simply cutting the taxes for America's wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to succeed in the future.

I have serious concerns about whether it's prudent to give any foreign country substantial leverage over the U.S. economy. Instead of spending $80 billion on important programs here at home, we're sending this money overseas just to pay interest on our debt.

By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.