American Quote by Harvey Pekar Download Open image “I came up with American Splendor. Some people think it's American Squalor.” — Harvey Pekar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare American Came I came People Some Some people Splendor Think Up
American products are marvels of production and functionality, but were unnecessarily and unbearably ugly, noisy smelly and offensive. — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
I'm an American except when I'm in the supermarket or at the candy store. — Jill Ellis Copy Share Image
People are trying to figure out what American food is; it's certainly an amalgamation. — David Chang Copy Share Image
America is a land of healthy appetites. It is not in the American character to live in order to eat. Rather, the reverse is… — Ludwig Bemelmans Copy Share Image
I went to a place recently I think is one of the most f**ked up places I've ever been to. I'm convinced this place… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, products and tastes developed in America have increasingly influenced lifestyles in Europe, whereas in previous centuries, it was… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Buying is more American than thinking, and I'm as American as they come. — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find it utterly intoxicating. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . . — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go home and… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I've just been writing stuff down as it comes to me. I haven't thought, 'Let me write some major opus here.' — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I'm always shook up and nervous and I've got the hospital record to prove it. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
My parents' work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day? Part of the reason was to keep… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I really like a lot of American country stuff, so my music has that influence, but I don't like to be set within a… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act in a tremendous investment to support millions of workers without a paycheck and behind on bills. — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and employ almost half of the working population. Yet because of their size, they rarely… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
New York and San Francisco are distinctly different. San Francisco is driving the American media, not New York. You have young, microwaved millionaires and… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
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