There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.

The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

Write what you like; there is no other rule.

East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer.

I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.

The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.

The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.

No friendship is an accident.

It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.

Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

Beauty is Nature in perfection; circularity is its chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid temples, the huckleberry pie, the wedding ring, the circus ring, the ring for the waiter, and the "round" of drinks.

There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer.

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style.

But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.

And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.

All we're getting from the Democratic majority in Congress and from this White House is more bailouts, more spending, more planned stimulus, more deficits and debt, and the American people have had it.

Who cares about that stuff? This is America, not Jerusalem. I'm an American. Let Harry be a Jew.

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information.

No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out.

I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.

What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.