Quotes of: American-literature Keyword

four meta-movements that separately and together are redefining the American dream: living with limits, embracing diversity, looking inward, and demanding authenticity.

The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream

'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences.

Lee Siegel

That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.

Norman Lear

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.

Dave Foley

The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

Kit Bond

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

Max Beerbohm

Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.

Blanche Lincoln

Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.

Joni Eareckson Tada

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

Alice Walker

Physicians, patients, and ethicists must also understand that acknowledging abuse and encouraging African Americans to participate in research are compatible goals. History and today's deplorable African American health profile tell us clearly that b...

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

Patton: Men, all this stuff you've heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. When you were kids, you all admir...

Patton

The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.

Come Back, Dr. Caligari

Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ...

In Conversation

Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.

The Death of the Author

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Existentialists and Mystics Writings on Philosophy and Literature

He yelled, "Charlie, you know where I am, don't you? All right, Charlie, this isn't literature. This is life.

Humboldt's Gift

Charlie, you know where I am, don't you? All right, Charlie, this isn't literature. This is life.

Humboldt's Gift

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

It's a special form of scholarly neurosis,´ said Camel. `He's no longer able to distinguish between life and literature.´

The British Museum Is Falling Down

The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature.

Bouvard and Pecuchet

I had never kissed a boy, had never even considered that I might enjoy such an unclean thing, until literature opened my eyes.

Burned