American Quotes

May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

It is a sin to be poor.

There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been.

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.

I do not recollect when I had such a mental treat.

When we first sort of break in or bust into the house, if you will, there's some tough love.

Practical storage pieces are great if you have a basement or a garage. But when you actually live with them day in and day out, they should be beautiful to look at.

People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age.

Lighting is an essential way to change the mood of a room, especially if you can use dimmers.

It's not a party until the fire department shows up.

In college you have the license to do things you'll never do again, so have fun with it.

I think the set looks great. It's kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair.

Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.

Mean people are no fun.

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday's news.

And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.

Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.

Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

The world is full of more interesting things than my voice.

Political movements always belong to the young.

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.

I actually pray everyday, but I don't believe in God.

When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.

Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.