American Quotes

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Novels are longer than life.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Lovers should also have their days off.

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.

'Jackass: The Movie' is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body.

I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that.

An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it.

A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.

A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it.

I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.

I want to go to sea.

We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains.

We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding.

Traffic is only one of the side effects of growth.

There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know.

The time has come to end social promotion in our schools.

So today I say, the outlook in Georgia has never been brighter.

Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn.

One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it.

No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions.