American Publisher Quotes

Stan Lee

Hugh Hefner

William Randolph Hearst

John F. Kennedy Jr.

Dave Eggers

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Larry Flynt

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown.... It is a city that offers me more people — more different kinds of people — than I could otherwise possibly have come to know in a lifetime: the native Washingtonian, the local merchant, the foreign diplomat, the ever-present tourist, the public servant, the journalist, the president, the friend.

Katharine Graham

The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

'It's better'n a Christmas,' they told their mother, 'to get ready for it!'

Margaret Sidney

They (fans) respond mostly to what WWE trains them to respond to. An ankle lock gets over because Kurt Angle does the ankle lock and everyone submits to it. A triangle by Undertaker doesn't get over because WWE has never trained the fans to accept that as a finish because no one ever taps to it. And it was the same thing when Shamrock was in WWE.

Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.

Hatespeak is usually more honest than lovespeak, and it's always better than doublespeak.

An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.

George Haven Putnam

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Francis Pharcellus Church

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.

Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis

The mystery of writing advertisements consists mainly in saying in a few plain words exactly what it is desired to say, precisely as it would be written in a letter or told to an acquaintance.

George P. Rowell

Barbara Walters: What would be your first act on becoming President?
John F. Kennedy Jr.: Call Uncle Teddy and gloat.

John F. Kennedy Jr.

The most important of the beat poets. He was a really true poet with an original voice, probably the most lyrical of those poets.

Let us today drudge on about our inescapably impossible task of providing every week a first rough draft of a history that will never be completed about a world we can never really understand.

My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them.

William Randolph Hearst

A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.

Lila Bell Wallace

I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers can hear the sounds.

The Americans who came across the plains in covered wagons and those who followed the trail later in trains drawn by the iron horse were interested in home ownership and a new life. Especially was this true of the Negro pioneers. They knew it was not a case of starting again. For them it was the dawn of a new life in an atmosphere of freedom.

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it's sex.

Love doesn't just drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.

Helen Gurley Brown

Some weeks later the Einsteins were taken to the Mt. Wilson Observatory in California. Mrs. Einstein was particularly impressed by the giant telescope.

Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application.

A lawyer's job is to manipulate the skeletons in other people's closets.

I think Hemingway's [book] titles should be awarded first prize in any contest. Each of them is a poem, and their mysterious power over readers contributes to Hemingway's success. His titles have a life of their own, and they have enriched the American vocabulary.

Feeding the media is like training a dog. You can't throw an entire steak at a dog to train it to sit. You have to give it little bits of steak over and over again until it learns.

Andrew Breitbart