American Quote by Oscar Wilde

“[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

“We have nothing but a history of our own invention to support this view. It suits us to believe it. It allows us to…

— Bernard Beckett

“People are not interested in truths; they are interested in inventions.”

— Charmaine Shaw

“Americans have many admirable characteristics, but literary taste is rare among them.”

— Elizabeth Peters

“The inventor...looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to…

— Alexander Graham Bell

“Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Writing is more about discovery than invention.”

— Diane Setterfield

“There are a lot of them, all around the wsorld, all built a lifetime ago, during the long and spectacular blaze of American military…

— Lee Child

“While I've never read Scientific American, I'll bet it is pretty scientific. And American. Just like those prehistoric cave drawings in the south of…

— Jarod Kintz

“America, you are full of nothing but bad ideas. Great intentions but awful ideas.”

— Kiera Cass

“I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations.”

— Mary Shelley

“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