Quotes of: American-businesses Keyword

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Ambrose Bierce

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

Colin Firth

These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.

bell hooks

Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.

Conor Oberst

In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.

Christina Hoff Sommers

The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans.

Noam Chomsky

We do not have to accept our current circumstances. We will change them. We are Americans. That's what we do.

Rick Perry

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

Douglas Coupland

Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors.

Elizabeth Warren

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

George Lucas

I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies.

P. J. O'Rourke

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

Ben Harper

I think African Americans are resilient and hustlers by nature. I think they need to understand that you can take that hustle to the boardroom, but it has to be an education process.

Daymond John

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

Diane Ravitch

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

Diane Ravitch

Most Hispanics are concerned with the same issues other Americans are - the economy, jobs, education. Similar to Main Street America.

Henry Bonilla

The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.

John Conyers

Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.

Sue Johanson

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

Alexis de Tocqueville

I'm an American. We've translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and that's getting Americanised.

Susan Glaspell

I wish we could get a national buddy network going. It would be a great thing for the American people.

Bart Starr