Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by American Authors - Page 3

Companies figured out that the easiest way to make money was to reissue records that the accounting department had paid for years ago and already made a profit.

Don't disrespect me, lie about it, and then come smile in my face and act like nothing's wrong.

I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters - a family, a home and a good name.

Man is what he reads.

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

If you are broken, you do not have to stay broken.

Advances in automation, artificial intelligence and robotics, while increasing productivity, will also cause major upheavals to the workforce.

Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.

Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.

Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to be a reader. It's the number one qualification.

And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.

I grew up in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts and went to college in Washington D.C.

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.

I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.

A halfway decent haircut will go a long way!

If you don't learn from your mistakes, then they become regrets.

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie.

Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.

I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling people. People like being fooled by actors. When you get right down to it, they probably like being fooled by politicians even more. A skillful actor will make you think, but a skillful politician will make you never have to think.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

It's so funny: whenever there's a new technology introduced, there's always this fear it's going to end entertainment as we know it. When records came around, they were going to be the end of live music. Nobody would ever want to go see live music again.

The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.

In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an attack.

When you're surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.

NBC had a show called 'The Toughest Bouncer in America' that I did. But I told them I didn't like that term, 'bouncer.' To me, it's offensive. A bouncer likes to get physical, likes to put his hands on people.

'The Wall' is a reaction to 'Edge of Tomorrow,' where I was like, 'I don't need time travel and aliens to take a hero and pin them down in an impossible situation. I can do it in a much simpler way.' And that was 'The Wall.'

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

My parents couldn't give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My dad is a handsome son-of-a-gun, and my mom is beautiful. And I've definitely been the lucky recipient. So, thank you, Mom and Dad.

You gotta catch the sauce. Move with me... I'm dripping sauce.

Diet is weird. It's elusive. I just try to listen to my body.

I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you're a realist!

The only failure is not to try.

European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

If you're wearing suits and you want to create your own sense of style, get to the tailor.

Nobody knows what the future is except for wizards.

You can't pee like a puppy if you wanna run with the big dogs.

Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.

Climate change is not just about carbon dioxide levels and melting polar ice caps. It is about our public health and protecting our Earth for future generations.

One way to feel good about yourself is to love yourself... to take care of yourself.

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.

In many senses, creativity and 'plagiarism' are nearly indivisible.

You can't fix stupid.

People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.

I like anywhere with a beach. A beach and warm weather is all I really need.

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

Football is unconditional love.

Police officers put the badge on every morning, not knowing for sure if they'll come home at night to take it off.

Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle.

If they're not talking about you, you're not doing something; you're not doing anything. So if they're talking about you, you may be doing something right. And when they talk bad about you, you just use it for motivation.

Before Hurricane Katrina, I always felt like I could come back home. And home was a real place, and also it had this mythical weight for me. Because of the way that Hurricane Katrina ripped everything away, it cast that idea in doubt.

My zombies will never take over the world because I need the humans. The humans are the ones I dislike the most, and they're where the trouble really lies.

I feel like I live a pretty quiet life. I like to focus on work and friends, and I love being in nature.