American Quotes - page 22

In Cancún, I felt like I had walked into an American teen movie. (Emma Watson)
[Conservative talk radio hosts] have conned the American people into thinking there is such a thing as a pro-life, pro-war, pro-gun, pro-death penalty Christian. View quote
Janeane Garofalo
It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman. View quote
Joan Crawford
The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model-whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home. View quote
Bruce Fairchild Barton
It's a scintillating stratagem. Language is actually employed to keep thought at bay. The words 'the American people' provide a truly voluptuous cushion of reassurance. You don't need to think. Just lie back on the cushion. The cushion may be suffocating your intelligence and your critical faculties but it's very comfortable. View quote
Harold Pinter
Mean Streets dealt with the American Dream, according to which everybody thinks they can get rich quick, and if they can't do it by legal means then they'll do it by illegal ones. View quote
Martin Scorsese
I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant. View quote
Bobby Fischer
The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian... It's actually a shame to be a so-called American, because everybody living there is a usurper, an invader taking part in this crime, which is to rob the land, rob the country and kill all the American Indians. View quote
Bobby Fischer
I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries. View quote
Mel Gibson
No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American. View quote
Anthony Bourdain
The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine. (Al Smith)
My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery. View quote
Sarah Palin
Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American. View quote
Malcolm X
Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied. View quote
John L. Lewis
When will American men learn how to stand up to the nagging by the intolerant, uncivil feminists whose sport is to humiliate men? View quote
Phyllis Schlafly
I am a Republican because I believe in the constitution, strength in national defense, limited government, individual freedom, and personal responsibility as the concrete foundation for American government. They reinforce the resolve that the United States is the greatest country in the world and we can all be eternally grateful to our founding fathers for the beautiful legacy they left us today. View quote
Martha Raye
As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say I didn't much like it. I witnessed the debasement of architecture, and I could see a decline in the quality of things like comic books and toys, things made for kids. Old things seemed to have more life, more substance, more humanity in them. View quote
Robert Crumb
Theres a lot of American kids think their food comes from the grocery store and the concept of seasonality has no meaning to them whatsoever. View quote
Peter Senge
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. View quote
Pauline Kael
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world. (H. L. Mencken)
Here is tragedy-and here is America. For the curse of the country, as well of all democracies, is precisely the fact that it treats its best men as enemies. The aim of our society, if it may be said to have an aim, is to iron them out. The ideal American, in the public sense, is a respectable vacuum. View quote
H. L. Mencken
If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x × y is less than y. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration. View quote
Bashar al-Assad
American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest. View quote
Richard Dawkins