Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

The Closing of the American Mind

Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth.

The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial

Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation

Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

I never bought a man who wasn't for sale. -W.A. Clark, ascribed

Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.

Free-Thought on the American Frontier

the flanger setting ... makes it sound as if the chord is being chewed over thoughtfully by a large genie accustomed to telling long, implausible stories

Guitar: An American Life

a guitar store is the only place in the known universe where a guy will allow himself to shop like a woman

Guitar: An American Life

On a medical school professor noted for slowly, carefully interviewing the patient: "He taught the love of truth.

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.

The Best American Essays 2007

The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.

Black Genius: African-American Solutions to African-American Problems

Life is about putting on hats. You have to know which ones you wear best.

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

The world is a beautiful place, you just don't see it all the time.

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

Take the time to get it right. There'll be gas tomorrow night

The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the a...

Ivan Illich

I always thought of myself as more American than Americans when I was living in Germany, because I always had this attitude of can-do, and if you're successful, you can show it, which is a very un-German thing, you know.

Kim Dotcom

By requiring all 30 million Americans age 18 to 25 to perform two years of national service, in the military or civilian life, we will be asking for a shared sacrifice from all American citizens.

Charles B. Rangel