Quotes of: American-league Keyword

Meditation had never been tried before in a medical center, so we had no idea whether mainstream Americans would accept a clinic whose foundation was intensive training in meditative discipline.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care.

Lincoln Chafee

I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.

Herman Wouk

Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.

Jodi Picoult

American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

Florence King

If the American public is so into morality in movies, why don't they throw more of their disposable income at religious-themed entertainment? For every 'Passion of the Christ,' there's a 'Fireproof' that comes and goes with no notice.

John Ridley

My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'

Marina Abramovic

Ricky Fitts: I didn't mean to scare you. I just think you're interesting.

American Beauty

[from trailer] Frank Lucas: This is my home. My country. Frank Lucas don't run from nobody. This is America.

American Gangster

Detective Trupo: [Referring to Lucas] We need to keep this cash cow alive.

American Gangster

Teenager in car: [to Terry] Is that you in that beautiful car? Geez, what a waste of machinery!

American Graffiti

Terry Fields: A double Chubby-Chuck, a chili-barb, two orders of French fries and...

American Graffiti

Patrick Bateman: [to Christie] Do you take credit card? Just joking.

American Psycho

Patrick Bateman: I hope I'm not being cross-examined here. Donald Kimball: Do you feel that way? Patrick Bateman: No, not really.

American Psycho

Tony Mendez: [after quizzing the hostages on their fake bios and the one hostage paused] Shoot him, he's an American spy!

Argo

Joyce Brabner: We are going to get through this. I understand illness. I know how to handle these things.

American Splendor

The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.

Samuel P. Huntington

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'

Alan Alda

I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

Alan Ball

In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for ou...

Arthur C. Brooks

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

Alexander Haig