American Quotes

An actor without an audience is rehearsing.

Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.

My point of view is that men are basically animals, and I'm okay with that.

I guess I am attracted to older women. I'm looking for a 40-something who has had her heart broken two or three hundred times. She's going to be fun!

Guys want a 500 horsepower car. I'd rather have one horsepower - in a horse. That's macho. You go to pick up your date and you show up on a horse.

This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.

We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.

Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

I converse with my dog through ESP.

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.

I am a Westerner of Westerners!

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.

Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

At 8, I made a pact with God.

The feeble soul merely whines and complains.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.