"Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy……" — Bernard Williams
"Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can."
More Americans Quotes
- When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. — Dave Attell
- First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans… — John Avlon
- Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made… — Joe Baca
- Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day. — Joe Baca
- Americans like fat books and thin women. — Russell Baker
- Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was… — Russell Baker
- Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just… — Russell Baker
- What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not… — Russell Baker
- Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The… — James A. Baldwin
- As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the… — Antonio Banderas
- Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans. — Max Baucus
- I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be… — Roseanne Barr