Quotes of: American-life Keyword

To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

I don't think that American drivers going to NASCAR are taking the easy way out because as I said, the racing is amazing; it's just that it's easier to adapt to what you grow up with. American drivers grow up with NASCAR, they know NASCAR, and that's...

Jacques Villeneuve

When a translation is very good, it is fascinating to see how the book changes and yet stays the same. I think 'Out Stealing Horses' sounds more American for Americans than it does in Norway, and still, it is all there, everything that I wrote. It's ...

Per Petterson

- If I tell you, will you let met go? - You bet, partner. [...] - You promised! - Nope. I said "you bet." You did ... and you lost.

American Vampire, Vol. 1

I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it.

America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow generals are getting Obscene on young blood Do you know we are ruled by t.v.

An American Prayer

It's one of those things a person has to do; sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.

The American Dream & The Zoo Story

Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube.

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

One-year enlistment had proven problematic since the troops were scheduled to rotate out of the army just when they had begun to internalize the discipline of military service and became reliable soldiers.

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

Clinton had displayed his lifelong tendency to make enemies of all his superiors, who never seemed to appreciate his advice as much as he thought it deserved.

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

...isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all the advertising men who create it?

The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character

I've been praying to Jesus and the Holy Ghost for and I have also mentioned that it would help if I did not have frizzy hair.

Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets and Growing Up in the 1970s

Funny to think that every day you have ever lived is a yesterday, and you will never live one single tomorrow. But then again, every day is a today when you’re living it.

Turtle: The American Contrition of Franz Ferdinand

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

[R]eality and real people are too subtle and complicated for anybody's typewriter, even Tolstoy's, even yours, even mine.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

The more sexual partners a woman has had, the more likely it is that she is depressed.

Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate, and Think about Marrying

There is only one thing left for you to do,” John Sloan advised one artist. “Pull off your socks and try with your feet.

Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960

As George Russell defined a literary movement: “Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.

Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960

We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.

Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream