Quotes of: American-interests Keyword

I'm not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me.

Thom Mayne

Grissom is pretty asexual. He's not that interested in anything other than work - except for Lady Heather. She's the closest to getting his heart of anyone.

William Petersen

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

Yves Tanguy

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.

Bill Blass

Women inspire me... so I enjoy women's stories and biographies. I am interested in all women.

Diane von Furstenberg

I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.

Miuccia Prada

All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.

Randal Cremer

American schools in Guam, both before 1941 and after 1945, were established to eradicate the Chamoru, tongue and person. To educate the old Chamoru out of the new American. The native out of the patriot...But the nastier lesson their schools taught w...

The Fire This Time: Essays on Life Under Us Occupation

I'd like to see North America become a dry, sunny, sandy region inhabited mainly by lizards, buzzards and a modest human population - about 25 million would be plenty - of pastoralists and prospectors (prospecting for truth), gathering once a year in...

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine have found out by being on the edge of conversations whe...

Peter Hitchens

I love America, and I love to say that my family is American.

James Spithill

For our sins God has created three enemies for us: mice in the house, the fox in the mountains, and a priest in our village.

South American

Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.

The Coming Storm

Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.

Demon in My View

Dempseys are never in trouble. We just have stretches of life that are more interesting than others.

Faking It

Parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

Fatherhood

In pursuing a ‘way,’ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.

Geeky-Girly Innovation: A Japanese Subculturalist's Guide to Technology and Design

That's interesting," Bitterblue said. "You think a conscience requires fear?

Bitterblue

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

Christine Lahti

Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.

Haniel Long

Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15.

James Fenton