American Humorist Quotes

#1. Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

Charles Dickens

#2. My father is an expatriate American; he fell in love with New Zealand in his youth and never went home.

Eleanor Catton

#3. One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly."
~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.

Andy Rooney

#4. If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be
a Christian. Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain", American author and humorist

George Washington

#5. The book of Jonah becomes an embarrassing and public reading of your family business. (page iii)

Michael Ben Zehabe

#6. You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.

Sally Field

#7. Beauty isn't worth thinking about. What's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. - Garrison Keillor, American humorist

Habib Sadeghi

#8. What exactly constitutes an emergency in a modelling agency? Two girls fighting to death with a hair straightener?

Kate Forster

#9. I take on issues that stir my passions about the state of humanity and our world, and I deeply believe in the power of still images to change people's minds,

Ed Kashi

#10. In painting, three things must be considered - the position of the viewer, the position of the object viewed, and the position of the light that illuminates the object.

Lynn Cullen

#11. He pressed her closer to his body for an instant, then slowly set her on her feet and stepped back, allowing her to get a look at him.

Trinity Faegen

#12. Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Ambrose Bierce

#13. Every sunrise is a new hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.

Janet Suzman

#15. Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents.
Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Mother Teresa

#16. Since much of American taxes prior to 1763 went to support the local clergy, one humorist suggested the opportunity to vote on that. If the minister was turned out, he could open a tavern and preach to his customers if he served them liquor.

Colin G. Calloway

#17. No one ever went broke by taking a profit.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

#18. The second gift is Beauty. May your deeds reflect its depth.

Charlene Costanzo

#19. No one knows who I am in Australia. They don't even know I am Australian, because 'The Secret Circle' is on in Australia, and I'm sure everyone's like, 'Oh, she's American. She's from, like, North Carolina.' Like, nobody knows me in Australia, I'm just telling you.

Phoebe Tonkin

#20. Fish got to swim, birds got to fly.

Oscar Hammerstein II