American Quotes
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American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.
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We can often do more by doing less. God is not particularly interested in quantity production. That is an American standard, not a Bible standard.
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The last time I looked at September 11th, an American street was a war zone. There was a street in Virginia that was a war zone.
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Having different people come together and be on a team and win a world championship is literally, I think, the definition of being American.
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American television is popular everywhere and its what I grew up on.
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Our economy is robust and will remain strong as more Americans who want a job find one. Republican economic policies based on tax relief are working for the American people.
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The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.
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I started to think of 'Hidden Figures' as the first part of a mid-century African-American trilogy.
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From last century's 'The Birth of a Nation' to this century's 'Gods and Generals,' Hollywood has likely done more than any other American institution to obstruct a truthful apprehension of the Civil War and, thus, modern America's very origins.
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American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.
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Third issue, and again I think it is important to note, anyone can make a mistake and any administration can make a mistake once in a while, but this is just a long train of abuses, an unbroken chain of following special interests rather than the health of the American people.
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The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.
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The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.
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When you have an American mother from the Midwest and an Egyptian father, you travel back and forth and see such completely different stories in the news about the exact same events. It makes you think, 'How is anybody able to understand or even have a dialogue when the basis of information is just so completely different?'
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And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.
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Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
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Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.
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The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.
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[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it.
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Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
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I definitely have a lot of Korean-American fans, which is amazing.
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For some strange reason we don't go to charming, light movies anymore. People expect a movie to be heavy and turgid, like 'American Beauty.' We've become a heavy-handed society.
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It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia.
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As long as the United States - and the world - gets its oil from the Middle East, we will be drawn into the endless crises that seem endemic to the region. American energy independence would not only liberate us, it would also drive down the worldwide price of oil.
