All Quotes

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.
‐‐ Zebulon Pike

American Apparel does great colourful basics that you can customise.
‐‐ Rita Ora

American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.
‐‐ John Updike

American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.
‐‐ Raoul Dufy

American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.
‐‐ Imelda May

American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring.
‐‐ Sid Vicious

American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.
‐‐ Simon Pegg

American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth. Their mercantile empire spanned the planet. They had the most potent and experienced army and navy the world had ever seen.
‐‐ Rick Atkinson

American Ballet Theatre's rehearsal studios are at 890 Broadway, an old building where exposed pipes clank and hiss in uneven accompaniment to piano music. The high ceilings wear a toupee of dust. The wall paint peels like a newbie ballerina's toes.
‐‐ Sascha Radetsky

American books reflect our common heritage with many other nations and their influence upon our culture. The influences are endless, linking us with the rest of the world. Thus, they are good ambassadors for us.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution.
‐‐ Evan Thomas

American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
‐‐ Ian MacKaye

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
‐‐ Barry Goldwater

American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?
‐‐ Aubrey McClendon

American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.
‐‐ Jim DeMint

American businesses are struggling to pay outrageous, exploitive insurance bills for their employees, hampering our ability to compete globally.
‐‐ Andrew Weil

American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas.
‐‐ Nikki Haley

American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.
‐‐ Clayton M. Christensen

American churches work very hard at reaching out to people to bring them in.
‐‐ Rodney Stark

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.
‐‐ Tom Hooper

American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled.
‐‐ James Howard Kunstler

American citizens and communities should be free to choose where they would like to live and not be subject to federal neighborhood engineering at the behest of an overreaching federal government.
‐‐ Paul Gosar

American colleges are now increasingly reflexive in maintaining politically correct dialogue over controversy, and some say universities have lost sight of education's ultimate purpose.
‐‐ John McLaughlin

American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.
‐‐ Joe Manganiello

American companies based in Scotland employ large numbers of people - in fact, we are the best performing part of the U.K., outside London and the southeast of England when it comes to attracting foreign direct investment.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world, connections that until recent were treated as obvious or self-evident everywhere on the planet.
‐‐ Thomas Frank

American consumers benefit from free trade and investment.
‐‐ John Shadegg

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.
‐‐ Dave Barry

American cooking is one of the unknown cuisines in America.
‐‐ Jose Andres

American corporations hate to give away money.
‐‐ Stephen Ambrose

American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.
‐‐ Florence King

American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.
‐‐ Arlen Specter

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
‐‐ Edward Albee

American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.
‐‐ Marcus Buckingham

American culture is not about experiencing our shame, it's about denying it. It's been that way our whole history.
‐‐ Chris Jordan

American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we've ever had because it is so materialistic and it's so full of lies. The whole advertising world is just, it's just intertwined with lies, appealing to the worst of the instincts we have.
‐‐ Eugene H. Peterson

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
‐‐ Katherine Dunn

'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political.
‐‐ Seth MacFarlane

American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.
‐‐ Samantha Power

American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
‐‐ Os Guinness

American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.
‐‐ Russell Simmons

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
‐‐ Thomas Babington Macaulay

American dog say, 'Woof, woof.' Korean dog say, 'Mung, mung.' Polish dog say, 'How, how.' So which dog barking is correct? That is human beings' barking, not 'dog' barking. If dog and you become one hundred percent one, then you know sound of barking. This is Zen teaching. Boom! Become one.
‐‐ Seung Sahn

American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.
‐‐ Pico Iyer

American Eagle clothing is stylish, flattering and all about embracing your individuality.
‐‐ Shay Mitchell

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.
‐‐ Diane Ravitch

American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.
‐‐ Lincoln Chafee

American exceptionalism is grounded in the founding of the United States upon an idea, rather than upon the ambitions of men.
‐‐ Monica Crowley