My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
“ ... as long as American life was something to be escaped from, the cartel would always be assured a bottomless pool… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything… — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
The one thing I've learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the… — Wolfman Jack Copy Share Image
Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I'm a Yugoslavian who loves America - my kids are Americans, you know. They're always going to be half and half because… — Vlade Divac Copy Share Image
If you live close to an International Rescue Committee office in the United States, find out how you can assist a refugee… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
Immigration law doesn't exist for the purpose of keeping criminals out. It exists to protect all aspects of American life. The work… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Through the 1980s and '90s, evangelicals sought to turn back the forces of secularization. Groups like the Moral Majority and the Christian… — Josh Hawley Copy Share Image
Buffett's uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer… — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
Immigration law doesn't exist for the purpose of keeping criminals out. It exists to protect all aspects of American life, the work… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“Imagine that you are stuck on a long train ride and must choose one of two books to read in order to… — Mark Thompson Copy Share Image
I think we're going to care more about Americans than Africans. I don't think that's ever going to go away, and I… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“The line in the sand that Carter drew along Iran’s Zagros Mountains now stretches from Central Asia through the Middle East and… — Andrew J. Bacevich Copy Share Image
I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the… — Knute Rockne Copy Share Image
Senator Allen has long been a leader on competitiveness issues in the Senate and as governor of Virginia. His announcement of the… — John Engler Copy Share Image
Those who first introduced compulsory education into American life knew exactly why children should go to school and learn to read: to… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished,… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.” — George Will Copy Share Image
Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life. — Jackie Kennedy Copy Share Image
“In the depths of him, he too didn't want to go. But he was a born American, and if anything was on… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Football features two of the worst aspects of American life, violence and committee meetings. — George F Wil Copy Share Image
Yes, too much emphasis is put on outward physical attributes in every area of American life. — Gloria Gaynor Copy Share Image
“Driving is boring," Rabbit pontificates, "but it's what we do. Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering… — John Updike Copy Share Image
My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life. — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
You really don't want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst features of American life. It is violence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
“The 1920s was a great time for reading altogether—very possibly the peak decade for reading in American life. Soon it would be… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
'Hamilton' and 'Shuffle Along' are closely connected because the ensembles are all friends, and they both deal with historical figures and the… — Brandon Victor Dixon Copy Share Image
