American culture Quote by Bill Bryson

“I don’t think I like American inventions [...] I am quite sure I don’t. I read some American novels lately, and they were quite…

— Oscar Wilde

“They’d been trained to make a tangible thing, and to sell the thing for a little more than the thing cost to make, and…

— Brian Alexander

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

— Rand Paul

“Every invention began as an imagination.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

“It was something I had always feared, the idea of technological advancement taking over the world, enslaving us all to an unknowable will”

— Tobias Wade

“Every significant invention must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared…

— Anonymous

“Americans were known for a zealous and often immoderate attachment to the United States and all it represented.”

— David H. Finnie

“Americans had built themselves a world of speculative pipe dreams. That world was inhabited, not by people who had to be convinced, but by…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“We have nothing but a history of our own invention to support this view. It suits us to believe it. It allows us to…

— Bernard Beckett

“But do you think the achievements of the Americans -- envied the world over -- came without a cost? Just ask their African brothers.…

— Amor Towles

“Without imagination, there’s no power to visualize what we have never experienced... and without that, there can be no progress, no invention.”

— Max Allan Collins

“In the decades following the Revolution, America changed so much and so rapidly that Americans not only became used to change, but came to…

— Gordon S. Wood