Americans Quote by John Irving Download Open image ““Isn't it amazing? The Americans have so many good afterthoughts!”” — John Irving ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Americans
“I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great… — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“When Americans say it was great, I know it was good. When they say it was good, I know it was okay. When they… — Laura Klos Sokol Copy Share Image
“It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“The Americans are an extremely interesting people. They are absolutely reasonable. I think that is their distinguishing characteristic...I assure you there is no nonsense… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
“You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do.” — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old people.” — Phil Gramm Copy Share Image
“All-American and proud of it. Too rich and soft and flawed to make any spiritual mark on anyone other than my own dog and… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
“America, you are full of nothing but bad ideas. Great intentions but awful ideas.” — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
“The US is at a point where just when the people imagine things can’t get any worse, they realize their imaginations weren’t big enough.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from… — John Irving Copy Share Image
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean––make sure they know what they mean! — John Irving Copy Share Image
The desire to never leave your side, the desire to never see you again. The desire to see your face asleep on the pillow… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“God, I think I just hit a high E-flat - and I really held it!" Esmeralda said, after one of her more prolonged orgasms,… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia!" Miss Frost cried. "You´re nostalgic!" She repeated. "Just how old are you, William?" She asked. "Seventeen, " I told her. "Seventeen!" Miss Frost… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“JUST BECAUSE A BUNCH OF ATHEISTS ARE BETTER WRITERS THAN THE GUYS WHO WROTE THE BIBLE DOESN'T NECESSARILY MAKE THEM RIGHT!" [Owen Meany] said… — John Irving Copy Share Image
It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Only the chicken-lover will understand me. He will give me a kindly look, maybe mildly desirous. His eyes will tell me: You might look… — John Irving Copy Share Image
You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Medical studies have shown that cursing reduces levels of stress and pain. Repressing your anger is not healthy. It's much better to verbalize it,… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“ Breakfast was ready. He could hear his father asking for coffee. Why did his father have to yell all the time? Couldn't he talk… — John Fante Copy Share Image
“What constitutes an American? Not color nor race nor religion. Not the pedigree of his family nor the place of his birth. Not the… — Harold Ickes Copy Share Image
“Anything that's strange is no good to the average American. If it doesn't have Chicago plumbing, it's nonsense.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“When good Americans die, they go to Paris,' the ghost said, after taking a drag on a small cigarette.” — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
“Alexa, and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I wonder when someone will grow the testicles to say to americans everywhere, 'Enough with the self-medicating.' Seriously. What ever happened to dealing with… — Anthony Beal Copy Share Image
We can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Taking away coffee from Americans is like taking away oil from the motors.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Americans will put up with anything, provided that It doesn't block traffic — Toni Watson Copy Share Image
“The Europeans hate us because we’ve retired to live inside our advertisements, like hermits going into caves to contemplate. We sleep in symbolic bedrooms,… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Although dieting is a long standing American pastime, as a method of losing weight it stinks.” — Kelly McGonigal Copy Share Image
