Quotes by American Authors - Page 81

Instead of just recording reality photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
Susan Sontag
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
Ambrose Bierce
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher
Philosophy - the purple bullfinch in the lilac tree.
T.S Eliot
I've developed a new philosophy - I only dread one day at a time.
Charles M. Schulz
It is easy to build a philosophy. It doesn't have to run.
Charles F. Kettering
Romanticism is the expression of man's urge to rise above reason and common sense just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.
Charles Yost
The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence.
William James
To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.
Horace Mann
Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where's the man could ease the heart Like a satin gown?
Dorothy Parker
Clothes and manners do not make the man but when he is made they greatly improve his appearance.
Henry Ward Beecher
Hair is another name for sex.
Vidal Sassoon
There's one thing about baldness - it's neat.
Don Herold
Every man over forty is responsible for his face.
Abraham Lincoln
(Abraham Lincoln's) weathered face was homely as a plowed field.
Stephen Vincent Benét
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity but in being uninteresting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
His ears made him look like a taxi cab with both doors open.
Howard Hughes
Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it bury it unearth it and gnaw it still.
Henry David Thoreau
Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after another.
Walter Elliott
As an entrepreneur I am often asked how I kept my perseverance. Well persevere comes from the Latin roots purse as in "money " and sever as in "cut off." That's why I persevered.
Brian Morgan
Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.
H.L. Mencken
The way I see it if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
Jean Kerr
Dear God I pray for patience. And I want it right now!
Oren Arnold
Nothing in the world can take place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
For me at least there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph: keep the fire burning until by and by out of the mass of sordid details there comes some result.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.
Charles F. Kettering
Be like a postage stamp-stick to one thing until you get there.
Josh Billings
Until I die I'm going to keep doing. My people need me. They need somebody that's not taking from them and is giving them something.
Clara McBride Hale
Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.
Henry Ward Beecher
When it goes wrong you feel like cutting your throat but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.
George Cukor
When you stop talking you've lost your customer.
Estee Lauder
If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think "I want to make this movie " it'll never get made.
Sherry Lansing
There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.
Woody Hayes
To look back is to relax one's vigil.
Bette Davis
There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
Toni Morrison
Grudge no expense-yield to no opposition-forget fatigue-till by the strength of prayer and sacrifice the spirit of love shall have overcome.
Maria Weston Chapman
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.
Marva Collins
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl S. Buck
You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds.
Margaret Mead
I'll take any way to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy I'll go in as a batboy.
Phil Rizzuto
We fought hard. We gave it our best. We did what was right and we made a difference.
Geraldine Ferraro
We're the best team in baseball. But not by much.
Sparky Anderson
When we do the best that we can we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another.
Helen Keller
To try to be better is to be better.
Charlotte Cushman
Perfectionism is slow death.
Hugh Prather
Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world.
Robert Hillyer
Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.
Anne Wilson Schaef
Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing if not carcinogenic.
Ursula K. LeGuin
I like a man with faults especially when he knows it. To err is human- I'm uncomfortable around gods.
Hugh Prather
I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
Felix Frankfurter
You're only human you're supposed to make mistakes.
Billy Joel
A finished person is a boring person.
Anna Quindlen
Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.
Ned Rorem
You know what they call the guy who finishes last in medical school? They call him Doctor!
Abe Lemons
The "C" students run the world.
Harry S. Truman
To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.
Norman Cousins
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.
William Faulkner
Nothing you write if you hope to be any good will ever come out as you first hoped.
Lillian Hellman