American Author Quotes

Only once you destroy who you think you are can you embrace who you truly are

Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.

We are striving to forge our union with purpose.
To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters, and conditions of man.

Amanda Gorman
Amanda Gorman
Statistics show that you have nothing to worry about.

Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself.

The moon drowsed between the trees like a great yellow moth.

Hallie Erminie Rives
Hallie Erminie Rives
People often choose to misunderstand if it makes life more interesting.

The rules of marriage were simple and easy to follow: faithfulness, patience, compromise. But there were no rules to divorce, or if there were, he had not yet discovered them.

Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.

The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.

My love for you won't stop with my leaving. Come an evening over the years, when you step outside your door and hear the wind blowing through the cottonwoods, that'll be me, thinking of you, whispering your name, and loving you.

All my life, I knew, all my life I would be haunted by words from Shakespeare.

Hollywood – a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum.

Laurence Stallings
Laurence Stallings
God comes to each of us in the form we can best perceive Him. To you, just now, He was a heron. To someone else, He might come as a flower or even a breeze.

Richard Zimler
Richard Zimler
Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.

When there's more sick ones than well ones, by golly the sick ones will lock the well ones up.

To know a little less and to understand a little more: that, it seems to me, is our greatest need.

We get mad, sure! Like ice an' snow an' thunder an' lightning storm, but they don't hurt the wheat down in the ground any.' Mom picked up her whitewash brush and slapped it against the rough boards. 'Yolochka, you don't know how love is yet.'

Men want a challenge, but they want a challenge they can win.

You lose everything you love in the order in which you love it.

Amelia Gray
Amelia Gray
There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

Sometimes people do things that are complicated. For complicated reasons.

Souls bound together can't be forever torn apart by distance and neither by death.

The big picture is that there is no big picture.
That's why we keep painting it.

People are all the same. We need a personal reason to get our asses off the couch.

Olen Steinhauer
Olen Steinhauer