Quotes about america
american-journalist body broad chest douglas feet four great half noticeable senator strength trunk
Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs.
american-journalist either fingers protracted remained settled sofa standing
The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations.
american-businessman great opinions people
A great many people mistake opinions for thought. Herbert V. Prochnow
american-novelist fiction income written
The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns. Herman Wouk
american-musician deeper gift grows hide lies piercing possess protective slave truth violinist
The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within. Yehudi Menuhin
american-musician
With me being form the South, I wanted to make this album like a G Unit. Young Buck
american-musician respected
It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
american-scientist both cooperate countries created environment hope nuclear
It is my strong hope that an environment will be created in which both of our countries can cooperate for the realization of a world without nuclear weapons. Yoshiro Mori
american-scientist country scourge suffered
Japan is the only country in the world which suffered from the scourge of nuclear weapons.
american-novelist marriage
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. Thornton Wilder
american-novelist animals best
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
american-novelist
There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
american-novelist among beings decide fools human life moment whether
But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.
america certain fixed haunting paradox perhaps strange
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. Thomas Wolfe
american-novelist time
Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.
american-journalist forget reader reads writer writes
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
american-journalist few half man men partly uses won
If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.
america brilliant british full literary newspapers presenting stories telling terrible vitality
I think British journalists do well in America because the newspaper culture there is so strong - telling stories and presenting them readably is in their DNA. British newspapers get a terrible rap, but they are brilliant in their presentation, most of them, so full of vitality and literary wit. Tina Brown
america corporate maternity offices people permanent requests whose
With so many part-time people on - and not on - the job, corporate America has started to feel like it's on a permanent maternity leave. Colleagues are an amorphous, free-floating army of rotating waifs whose voicemails are clogged with plaintive requests from their own offices for missing information.
america became days education held ignorance mass pine practical public reality
To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy. Timothy Noah
america engine engines glass united
You know, this iPhone, as a matter of fact, the engine in here is made in America. And not only are the engines in here made in America, but engines are made in America and are exported. The glass on this phone is made in Kentucky. And so we've been working for years on doing more and more in the United States. Tim Cook
american-educator pick
You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. Timothy Leary
american-journalist basically enormous gave offering research richer saved time
I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research in a shorter time. Thomas Friedman
american-musician figure happened looked suppose
She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next. Iggy Pop
america either
Comedy in America is very serious. Either they laugh, or they don't. Gad Elmaleh
american-editor tantamount
An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
american-editor banish devil gives god men poor powerful
It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
american-editor
Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
american-musician audition campbell guy named natalie picked players richard secret three
We then went through the audition process and picked a guy named Richard Campbell and he is no secret to L.A. players as he was with Natalie Cole for years and Three Dog Night. Gerry Beckley
american-musician
It's one thing to be a fan and it's another thing to be a label.
american-musician careful efforts hits people record
I try to be careful to not just say it's a greatest hits show because we've also made efforts to keep people up to date so to speak because we continually write and record and put out albums.
american-musician cardinals last night prepared speak wished
I prepared my intervention the night before I spoke. As it happened, there were about 44 cardinals who wished to speak but could not because there was not enough time. I was one of the last to speak. Godfried Danneels
american-artist collected comics everybody music normal people rock
We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.