“After listening to a lot of these stories, I began to think that American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly… — Ellen Cushing Copy Share Image
“Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't… — T. Rafael Cimino Copy Share Image
“America truly is the best idea for a country that anyone has ever come up with so far. Not only because we… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“So why don’t Americans cheat? Because they think that their system is legitimate. People accept authority when they see that it treats… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Because Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.” — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
“Americans were no more shallow than any other people, just more pampered, so they had come to treasure their shallowness, making pop… — Robert Boswell Copy Share Image
“When bad news is riding high and despair in fashion, when loud mouths and corruption seem to own center stage, when some… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“That’s what money will buy you, in America,” Brown had said, firmly. “People say Americans are materialistic. But do you know why?”… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“If, then, to meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways, I shall hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark; weave round them tragic graces;… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Millions of Americans who work hard & play by the rules every day deserve a government and a financial system that does… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Huck [Finn] and Tom [Sawyer] represent two viable models of the American Character. They exist side by side in every American and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
“That's my point: if you own thirty or more books, or you are reading any book at this moment, you may protest… — Thomas Geoghegan Copy Share Image
“There is a story I always tell my students...when I came for the 1st time to the US. I didn’t speak English… — Pablo Copy Share Image
“We are slaves to the pleasures the powerful allow us to have. That is if we're good dogs.” — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
“A soldier: "I know where heaven is and it's Lithuania ... The women are beautiful, pagan, with a practical view towards sex.… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“When Americans say it was great, I know it was good. When they say it was good, I know it was okay.… — Laura Klos Sokol Copy Share Image
“What is the difference? Tell me what is the difference between you and me. We both kill for what we want," the… — Brittany Noel Bostic Copy Share Image
“In the old Republican days the subject of slavery and of the saving of the Union made appeals to the consciences and… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
“The folk of Hell-Knows-Where by default still thought of themselves as Americans.” — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
