Quotes of: American-empire Keyword

What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.

Wim Wenders

I'm married to an American. I work for a company that is, you know, its headquarters in the U.S.

Wael Ghonim

British and American women have very different styles and a different way of living.

Carolina Herrera

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.

Gwen Moore

I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine.

Janine di Giovanni

As surely as I feel love and need for food and water, I feel love and need for God. But these feelings have nothing to do with Supramundane Males planning torments for those who don't abide by neocon "moral values." I hold the evangelical truth of ou...

God Laughs & Plays; Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right

Zane looks pensive, and then his lips twitch. “They say most girls end up marrying a guy just like their dad.” “Oh God … That’s so lame,” I say, spluttering as coffee dribbles down my chin. “I believe it’s a tried and tested theory,�...

Beyond Reach

No more light answers. Let our officers Have note what we purpose. I shall break The cause of our expedience to the Queen And get her leave to part. For not alone The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches, Do strongly speak to us, but the letters...

Antony and Cleopatra

I often feel the pressure, from my peers and others, to come out and “take a stand” on a moral or social issue. Typically, I refuse to do so, or at least I refuse to do so in a way that will please my critics. On so many of the hard and divisive ...

The Jesus Tribe: Following Christ in the Land of the Empire

From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. And just as it had been tradition of mine to climb to the Plaza roof to take leave of the beautiful city extending as far as the eyes could see, so now I went to t...

My Lost City: Personal Essays 1920-40

All of the myths of mankind are nothing but show business,' the other man said to me during our initial meeting. 'Everything that we supposedly live by and supposedly die by — whether it's religious scriptures or makeshift slogans — all of it is ...

Teatro Grottesco

[Opening line and sentences as movie started] Narrator: And God said Let there be light, and there was light. And from this light, God created life upon earth. And man was given diminion over all things upon this earth and the power to choose betweem...

The Ten Commandments

[first lines] Title Card: 1930. Prohibition has transformed Chicago into a City at War. Rival gangs compete for control of the city's billion dollar empire of illegal alcohol, enforcing their will with the hand grenade and tommy gun. It is the time o...

The Untouchables

I may be a criminal lunatic, but I'm an AMERICAN criminal lunatic!

Batman/Captain America

We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.

Clay Shirky

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

Tori Amos

It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.

American Gods

The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.

American Pastoral

I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.

Anne-Marie Duff

There's no mistaking the fact that some of the best longform fiction out there now is in American television. 'The Wire' and 'Deadwood' and 'The Sopranos.'

Kevin Barry

I love 'The Americans.' I think it's one of the best shows on TV.

Reid Scott