American Literary Canon Quotes

#1. I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us.

Marc Singer

#2. If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with a straight face always adding a qualifying paragraph noting that mathematicians however say that two plus two still equals four.

Susan Jacoby

#3. Honestly, I have heard a lot in my 16 years as a prosecutor.

Trey Gowdy

#4. The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.

Guy Finley

#5. Before one accepts spirituality, astrology is very powerful, like a lion. Then when one enters into a deeper spiritual life, astrology becomes a tiny household cat.

Sri Chinmoy

#6. Some people just don't want to put in the effort. I just show up and say some lines and I'm famous. Anyone living below the poverty line just needs to shape up or be shipped out, you know?

Zach Braff

#7. What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!

Edwin Balmer

#8. There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and different brushstrokes over the same canvas.

Adam Young

#9. A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Aristotle.

#10. It's the kind of storm that only happens on the highveld, the thunder loud and rapid. Zanele doesn't speak. I need her to. Maybe she is counting the people who have died since we first met.

Arushi Raina

#11. Dads are awkward because they're older guys who aren't cool anymore and are figuring out who they are, and they often make bad choices in fashion and music.

Tim Heidecker