American Quotes

I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a guitar.

I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.

I am stable when my private life is a success.

I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.

Hollywood is very much an industry town. Your life becomes caught up in all of the parties and this list and that list. That's not something that I respond well to.

Every bowling center should have a house pro.

Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures.

Being with all those great bowlers was the greatest three days I ever had.

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

London is one of the most enchanting places I've ever been on this planet.

I'm not qualified for anything else, so I would imagine I'd either be doing something larcenous or I would have already been caught.

I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.

I do what I can to make young people understand that drugs can destroy their lives. I'm the perfect example of what people can accomplish when they have regained a sane body and spirit.

If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is.

I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them.

Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.

A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen.

You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

There was no avoiding the fact that we were going to hit our debt ceiling.

The American people were really not 100% convinced that this idea of default was really going to occur, and I think the media, current company excepted here, did not help in that regard because they confused the American people about what default actually meant.

If we had decided on January 5, in the new House of Representatives, to make no new spending bills, the debt ceiling would've still been hit, because, those are bills that are coming in as a result of purchases and commitments made by the administration and the previous Congress.

America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for.

There is an excitement about having nightmares.