American Author Quotes

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

Hallie Erminie Rives

And brown is the papaw's shade-blossoming cup, In the wood, near the sun-loving maize!

So I cradle this average violin that knows
Only forgotten showtunes, but argues
The possibility of free declamation anchored
To a dull refrain....

The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive.

We have often had this particular exchange about climate and landscape and why we both feel so lonely here uprooted. It was what each of us had wanted of course.Besides wanting to experience a place we hated, we wanted to be insomniacs and loners, losers and drop-outs. To know the sky was the only location of meaning and joy left to us.

But Shakespeare knows what the sphinx thinks, if anybody does. His genius is penetrative as cold midwinter entering every room, and making warmth shiver in ague fits. I think Shakespeare never errs in his logical sequence in character. He surprises us, seems unnatural to us, but because we have been superficial observers; while genius will disclose those truths to which we are blind.

William Alfred Quayle

Did you ever hear
Of the frolic fairies dear?
They're a blessed little race,
Peeping up in fancy's face,
In the valley, on the hill,
By the fountain and the rill;
Laughing out between the leaves
That the loving summer weaves.

Frances Sargent Osgood

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

We are part animal, part human, and part divine, and the moment we forget the possibility of any one of those, we are lost.

The step of obedience always precedes revelation. That pattern is evident all through the Scripture.

That enchantment that I lightly took
Out of the lovely April is for ever.

You imagine that there's no use struggling against fate, that she will always have her way, no matter what we do. But don't you see? It's our very efforts to cheat fate, or to change it, that make things come to pass in the way they were meant to.

Gary Blackwood (author)

The best hiding spots are not the most hidden; they're merely the least searched.

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

Olen Steinhauer

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

James Ramsey Ullman

A man sat on a rock and sought Refreshment from his thumb; A dinotherium wandered by And scared him some. His name was Smith. The kind of rock He sat upon was shale. One feature quite distinguished him: He had a tail.

David Law Proudfit

Christians have oppressed Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Pagans, and each other throughout their centuries of power, preaching religious intolerance as the word of Jehovah whenever they had the military, political, or economic power to make it stick — and then piously preaching brotherhood, peace, and toleration when they didn't.

Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.

The writers' strike a couple years ago was a bonanza for reality TV shows new and old.

Carole Nelson Douglas

Because it doesn't take much courage to fight when you still believe you can win. What takes real courage is to keep fighting when all hope is gone.

Francisco Varela, an experimental and theoretical biologist, studied what he termed "emergent selves" or "virtual identities." His was an immanent view of reality, based on metaphors derived from self-organization and Buddhist-inspired epistemology rather than on those derived from engineering and information science.

This world is filled with many vulgar and dishonorable things that will claw and tear at your Christian purity if you allow them to. Don't let them! Seek instead the things of God. He will purify you and free you from your slavery to profane and inconsequential things.

To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man.

Bernard Iddings Bell

Wasn't no "death do us part" in slavery; wasn't even no "dead or sold" less'n two peoples made it that. Far as two peoples loving with each other, it was any handy place if you was willing —and sometimes if you wasn't; or you jumped the broom if the masters let you marry. But you couldn't help dreaming. Dreams was one of the reasons you got up the next day.

Sherley Anne Williams

We come back to autumn,
to zucchini that wilt like witches' shoes...