Modern American Quotes

24 quotes by 24 authors

After my father had seen me in five or six things, he said, Son, your mother and I really enjoyed your recent film, and I… — Dermot Mulroney
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that… — Manuel Puig
Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated… — Bix Beiderbecke
I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what' — Norbert Wiener
I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right about one of… — Scott Ritter
Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing American popular and… — Herbert Gutman
In his study of Atlanta over the last 60 years, Kevin Kruse convincingly describes the critical connections between race, Sun Belt suburbanization, the rise of… — Dan Carter
Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children are exposed. Tiny - and… — Richard Posner
Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie. — David Hackworth
I am not against all forms of high-tech medicine. Drugs and surgeries have a secure place in the treatment of serious health conditions. But modern… — Andrew Weil
To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical. — Vine Deloria, Jr.
Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed upon the new… — Alfred Kazin
And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important… — Judy Woodruff
Someone has described the modern American as a person who drives a bank financed car over a bond financed highway on credit card gas to… — Paul Billheimer
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. — Ernest Hemingway
Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience. — Penn Jillette
One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly. — Conor Oberst
President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will… — Mitt Romney
Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other. — Marco Rubio
In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got… — Matt Taibbi

Who Wrote These Modern American Quotes

24 authors contributed a total of 24 Modern American Quotes as follows: