Quotes about america
american-businessman good hearty prove
While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why. Allen Klein
america amount british land pool produced work
A lot of British actors will look at America as such a land of opportunity. In England, there's such a small pool of working actors of color. There's such a small amount of work that is actually produced in the first place. Aml Ameen
america change comparing employment faster fired found people rates recessions
A while ago I did a story comparing the change in employment rates in recessions in the U.S. and in Europe, and what I found was that America fired a lot of people and rehired a lot of people faster than Europe. That difference is disappearing, and that is a problem. Amity Shlaes
american-musician beyond harder lived trying
I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich. Allan Sherman
american-musician
Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.
american-musician
Our act started at the bottom and went downhill.
american-musician bladder five minutes sit twelve
It's a play where something went wrong, 'Cause it's five hours, twelve minutes long. If you sit there, my friend, From beginning 'til end, Then your bladder better be strong!
american-musician ends trouble
I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.
american-musician extremely family great high history stand table trouble
When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.
american-musician heard land
Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol.
american-musician expressed highest invented liked natalie played score scrabble triple
Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon.
american-musician camel committees designed heard sit
They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.
american-journalist
These humiliations are the essence of the game. Alistair Cooke
american-poet prone
Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness. Amy Lowell
american-poet brooding dreams guarded quit thousand
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
american-poet cheerfulness
Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
america face good government greatest happened life nation states united
Everything that has happened in my life is because of good government and because the United States of America was the greatest nation on the face of the earth. Andrew Young
american-musician floor love
Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, if you have that, but learn to love what you have. Anita Baker
american-musician became felt
Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.
american-athlete drives gone people
Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open. Billie Jean King
american-athlete depends earth
They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.
american-cartoonist contact elsewhere exists life none sign surest
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. Bill Watterson
american-athlete future
I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer. Dan Quisenberry
american-athlete balls
Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.
american-novelist believe
Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all. Dalton Trumbo
american-novelist anybody bigger town
We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
american-comedian children wonderful
We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories. Damon Wayans
american-comedian kids
My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.
american-comedian kids trying
But my kids, my brothers' kids - they think about trying to top what we did.
american-comedian
Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
american-comedian marriage
And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.
american-comedian
I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
american-comedian
And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.