Traditionalist American Quotes & Sayings

I was good at art - always good at art. — Robert Barry

Power does not alter a man's character. It merely reveals it. — Carlos Fuentes

I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration. — Freddie Mercury

Somehow, one never really runs away, or I never have, and I find that the faster I go the more catches up with me ... all the while time stands, to me, still - straight up and down like a great white sheet. — Joy Hester

We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world. — Henry Cabot Lodge

How did we ever get the idea that God would supply us on demand with quick fixes, that God is merely a rescuer and not a midwife? — Sue Monk Kidd

In England or America, actors do not have to cater to an image. In India, it is almost demanded of us. Very seldom do you get a film where you can walk away from your image. — Abhishek Bachchan

I think the one overwhelming emotion that we had was when we saw the earth rising in the distance over the lunar landscape ... It makes us realize that we all do exist on one small globe. For from 230,000 miles away it really is a small planet. — Frank Borman

We are born with magic inside of us — James Victore

Composers, skilled in theory, hear music differently. CAT profiles of their listening brains show more verbal hemisphere activity, as if they don't just let the associative sensations of timber and rhythm swell through them, but somehow eavesdrop on a point being argued on thought's original instruments. Can the effect be any less beautiful for being better articulated? — Richard Powers

Anger has a way of returning. — Junot Diaz

Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry. — Marisha Pessl

Family isn't blood," she said bitterly, continuing to back away. "Family is who loves you, who takes care of you. — Bruce Coville