Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
Americans are artisans in freedom.
For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.
I do love to interpret songs in American Sign Language.
Patrick Bateman: Negative. Cancel it.
Joyce Brabner: I'm a self-diagnosed anemic.
I've always been crazy for the American songbook.
An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
In the South they don't care how close you get, as long as you don't get too high. In the North, they don't care how high you get, as long as you don't get too close.
When the last tree has been cut down, the last river has been polluted and the last fish has been caught -- only then do you realize that money can't buy everything:
In Australia, kids play in American accents.
The mad, cruel, and accursed American war.
Like casinos, large corporate entities have studied the numbers and the ways in which people respond to them. These are not con tricks - they're not even necessarily against our direct interests, although sometimes they can be - but they are hacks fo...
The present importance of the Book of Job cannot be expressed adequately even by saying that it is the most interesting of ancient books. We may almost say of the Book of Job that it is the most interesting of modern books. In truth, of course, neith...
There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction. As Police Commissioner it was my duty to deal with all kinds of squalid misery and hideous and unspeakable in...
A boy is in the parlour what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, he tries and sentences them on their merits, in the swift, summary way of boys, as good, bad, inter...
I was thinking, and realised how simple my goal has been— just to be me! I didn't want to be a good person and change the world; I just wanted to be me! Against all odds, I wanted to make sure that I turned out as myself and not into my family, my ...
I confess that 's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, for a multitude of such theorems can easily be set up, which one could neither prove nor disprove. But I have been stimulated by it to bring our again several old i...
European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept.
We go to Europe to be Americanized.
Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.
