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American Quotes (page 3)

Max Lerner quote: "Americans live in a twilight world between a sense of loss and..."
Americans live in a twilight world between a sense of loss and a sense of resigned acceptance. Max Lerner
Alan Moore quote: "American love? like coke in green glass bottles...they don't..."
American love? like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore. Alan Moore
American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret. David Foster Wallace
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always..."
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry. F. Scott Fitzgerald
American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the economy of the nation, the empire of business within the republic, both include in their basic premise the idea of perpetual warfare Muriel Rukeyser
Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of the sides, preferably a little wilted. Raymond Chandler
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Americans . . . are forever searching for love in forms it..."
Americans . . . are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. Kurt Vonnegut
[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use. Bill Bryson
Dean Koontz quote: "Americans thrive on mobility and feel shrunken in spirit when..."
Americans thrive on mobility and feel shrunken in spirit when they do not have it.(Odd Thomas) Dean Koontz
American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant. H. L. Mencken
Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we’re simultaneously cowardly and arrogant. We don’t know the answers, so we assume they must not exist. But they do exist. They are unclear and/or unfathomable, but they’re out there. And—perhaps surprisingly—the only way to find those answers is to study NBA playoff games that happened twenty years ago. For all practical purposes, the voice of Brent Musburger was the pen of Ayn Rand. Chuck Klosterman
Oscar Wilde quote: "American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as..."
American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past. Oscar Wilde
[American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over. Alec Baldwin
Norman Vincent Peale quote: "Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat..."
Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security. Norman Vincent Peale
Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster. Kate Moss

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