The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignified.... after a… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
...it is the Far Right today that establishes the terms of the nuclear debate. And in this context, in a room ringing… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
America can be a very hysterical country intellectually and very puritanical, too. You probably have fun in private, but to the rest… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Along the western slopes of the Oregon Coastal Range . . . come look: the hysterical crashing of tributaries as they merge… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Dick Clark and I had such a hysterical relationship with each other. — Vicki Lawrence Copy Share Image
Love is very funny business. And sex - well, let's face it, sex is hysterical. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
It doesn't eat meat." I said. "It's a herbivore. It's like a big cow." Denna looked at me and started to laugh.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences - and unique to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If he didn't get out of here - right now - Harrier was either going to break into hysterical laughter or strangle… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
People are hysterical about the death of newspapers, and I would say, 'They're not dying; they're just kind of reinventing themselves.' — Jared Kushner Copy Share Image
I think I'm hysterical. I watch myself on tape and just roar - isn't that weird? — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
I write music, it’s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn’t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
It's only people who are hysterical who can play hysterical parts. — Sybil Thorndike Copy Share Image
Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
Even if I'd stayed [in the US to finish 'The Magnificent Ambersons'] I would've had to make compromises on the editing, but… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I would say I live half in New York and half in Claridge's. How decadent! How hysterical! — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image
The position of the hysterical subject is that he or she always guesses what is behind the curtain, that is why such… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
Music should always be polarizing. What one person likes, somebody else hates. And I hate that kind of snobbery in pop music.… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Trout aren't naturally as selective as they've become in crowded tailwaters - they've been trained to be like that by too much… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
When Princess Diana died, I couldn't understand why people were mourning her death in such an enormous, hysterical way when they didn't… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
