American Quotes

Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.

There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne.

There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter!

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.

Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

No lady is ever a gentleman.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

I'm never going to get in a fight in public again.

I'm kind of like the goofy number-seven guy in a lot of movies.

I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble.

I was raised right. I dig who I am.

I was a scam artist in high school for a while.

I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing.

I want to get married, but I'm always tortured in relationships.

I wake up at 5 a.m. every day and go to bed early.

I never planned on being a plumber.

I liked being in the spotlight.

I knew whatever I did, it was going to be big.

I feel I should be doing stupid stuff, but I'm not going to.

I don't want to sound pretentious, but you could hire a bunch of monkeys to be on a TV show, and if it's successful, then everything's perfect and everybody's happy.

I can't sit still for 10 minutes.

Since I was a kid, he's told me to learn from his mistakes.

My whole body is a wreck. I've injured myself so many times with jujitsu, skateboarding, football. I guess I like to live hard.