Books Quote by John Keegan

Living in America has made me more practical. And, at the same time, exactly the opposite, because I'm very open to different ways of…

— Italo Zucchelli

I don't diminish the idea of being American, but what I embrace is the idea of being human.

— Lee Isaac Chung

Americans ... attach such a fantastic importance to their baths and plumbing and gadgets of all sorts. They talk as if people could hardly…

— Ann Bridge

I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American -- on the…

— Wallace Stevens

I like Americans, but they are somewhat monocellular. When I talk with Americans, I often wonder why they are so simpleminded.

— Ichiro Ozawa

There's a certain je ne sais quoi that Americans have in spades - a we-can-do-anything spirit that makes so many things possible for all…

— Marianne Williamson

I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money.

— Alain Prost

Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its own right,…

— Shana Alexander

I do think that Americans do not understand that things are done differently in other parts of the world and that the other ways…

— Andrew Sean Greer

True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way,…

— Maurice Saatchi

The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a real tradition…

— Gore Vidal