Americans Quote by Orson Scott Card

“You are the colonel of your life. Full stop. But your feeling of inadequacy isn’t a high enough frequency to make the thought pop.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

“I did pick up a few tolerably ripe and breezy expressions out in France. All through my military career there was something about me…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“Well, Colonel, there is diplomacy and there is reality. Our ambassador represents diplomacy. I represent reality. And the reality is we don't want you.”

— Stephen Kinzer

“And if the Colonel thought that calling me his friend would make me stand by him, well, he was right.”

— John Green

“Americans tend to play different roles, hoping that somehow they’ll stumble on the right one.”

— Gore Vidal

“Heh. Deny it all you want, colonel. At heart, we're both flip sides of the same coin: wolves who don't fit in the pack.”

— John Ostrander

“But the superiority of the British is that it is a matter of complete indifference to them if they appear to be stupid.”

— Margaret MacMillan

“I do not think the Colonel will approve of your engaging the enemy,” Ivo said. Cinderella pointed her head skyward. “I agree. But Friedrich…

— K.M. Shea

“Now the colonel seemed to grieve for his President again, because he said, “This world spits out a beautiful man like he was poison.”

— Denis Johnson

“It was as though, so long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares…

— William Faulkner

“I found Americans arrogant, Germans rude, Britishers selfish, Frenchs desperate, Chinese worried and my own nation stupid.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“I’m sure whoever first started questioning their political opponents’ patriotism thought they were being quite clever.”

— Paolo Bacigalupi