"I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious,……" — Edmund White
"I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer."
More American Quotes
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics… — Rudolf Arnheim
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that… — Isaac Asimov
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way… — Bashar al-Assad
- When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. — Dave Attell
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans… — John Avlon
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the… — Irving Babbitt
- If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying. — Irving Babbitt
- 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
- Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the… — Joe Baca