Extra Quote by Minfong Ho

“If you're not extra, you're not enough”

— Tre'von Leverett

“[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would…

— Bill Bryson

“Americans were known for a zealous and often immoderate attachment to the United States and all it represented.”

— David H. Finnie

“I had one more thing to add to my expanding world.”

— Jamaica Kincaid

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“My mother said in trying too hard to be American, I must have forgotten certain things to store new things as a way to…

— Uyen Nicole Duong

“Americans still say integration is important, but very few do anything to bring it about.”

— Jared Taylor

“The words 'mainly in America' translated to me as 'this is bollocks' and I sat back in my chair with a sigh.”

— Danny Wallace

“They had been double-crossed in the act of double-crossing, which was probably what they should have expected from the start, especially knowing that the…

— Michael McBride

“Isn't it amazing? The Americans have so many good afterthoughts!”

— John Irving

“Just being is the main thing. Anything else is extra.”

— Walter Van Tilburg Clark

“It had happened again. I had met another American whose generosity, it began to seem to me, gushed out of the spirit of this…

— Peter Jenkins