Americana Wall Quotes & Sayings

Writers, that deep dark secret is not something you should hide from the world. It is your gift. Take it from memory and illuminate it in literature,shake the dust from it, unless it will get you arrested, lol. — Kevin R. Hill

For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn. — Henry Miller

It's just a lot of me. Way too much of me. — Becky Albertalli

In the morning I drink a glass of sunshine to brighten my heart. I smile to spread the light of life. — Debasish Mridha

During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year. — H.L. Mencken

You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a complete sceptic or idealist, but a realist at heart. So long as he is alive his sincere philosophy must fulfil the assumptions of his life and not destroy him. — George Santayana

From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are you a red state or blue state?', I say, 'I'm purple.' I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market. — Brad Thor

I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly: I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage." CHAPTER — Jane Austen

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness. — Arthur Smith

Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an actress can't be a poet. — Grace Zabriskie

Life would be so much easier if we had the courage to ask the questions we fear the most. — Billy Taylor

When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium. — Truman Capote

I think a fundamentalist is somebody who believes something unshakably and isn't going to change their mind. — Richard Dawkins