Quotes about america
american-activist aspire denied determined endured
There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish. Samuel Gompers
american-activist becomes cease demand received results shall until
We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
american-comedian
It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there. Sam Kinison
american-comedian either guess lots
I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.
america maker subject threat threatens
Nothing is less suspenseful than a threat that threatens the maker of the threat at least as much as the subject of the threat. Congress hasn't learned this yet, but America has learned it over and over. Walter Kirn
america buy hope steak
America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
american-scientist living work
When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either.
american-musician birth opening sudden
Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.
american-musician blues expressed facts life true words
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding. Willie Dixon
american-soldier artistic beyond coming creative irish prominent
Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side.
american-soldier attracted drawn imagery
I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.
american-soldier life
The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet.
american-soldier earlier known time
I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.
american-soldier concepts confine languages possibilities speak terms
It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.
american-soldier landscape
I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there.
american-soldier basically blank filling involved putting
We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.
american-soldier basically dancers gets good singers
All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.
american-businessman country department dollars felt higher million next pay year
I have long felt that an investment by the Department of Energy of a million dollars a year for the next 30 years would pay a higher return than any other investment this country could ever make. Wilson Greatbatch
american-businessman fusion
We have never succeeded in slowing down our nuclear fusion reactors.
american-author believe continue genuine possibilities
Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy. William Greider
american-author bloody designed finest less populace reassure rituals
As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.
american-author country
In this country you can say aloud or publish just about anything you like.
american-author animals people reflected relate remind ways
Animal-rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.
american-author human might pundits rational slip terrorists whatever
What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. William Blum
american-author seem shall
Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step. William Dean Howells
american-author curiosity man
The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.
american-musician careers steered
You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today. Wanda Jackson
american-musician
I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.
american-musician
I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.
american-musician issues
There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
american-musician music
It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.
american-musician
Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.
american-musician cars dressing vintage
They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars.