Quotes of: American-woman Keyword

New Rule: Americans have to come up with a better cheese to represent the nation than American cheese. I'm not even sure American cheese is cheese. I think it's aged Jell-O. And it doesn't need to be individually wrapped in plastic, either. You're th...

The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

The highest paid Americans read an average of two to three hours per day. The lowest paid Americans don't read at all... ...58% of adults never read another book after they leave high school—including 42% of university graduates... ...43.6% of Amer...

The Luck Factor

Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borr...

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric or civilized," Bennett said in a speech at the start of the dust storms. What was happening, he said, was "sinister", a symptom o...

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

A little white woman, . . . [a] tiny little white woman I could fit in my pocket.’ . . . ‘And I don’t know why I’m surprised. You don’t even notice it – you never notice. You think it’s normal. Everywhere we go, I’m alone in this… t...

On Beauty

Sometimes, as Eve was born from one of Adam’s ribs, a woman was born during my sleep from a cramped position of my thigh. Formed from the pleasure I was on the point of enjoying, she, I imagined, was the one offering it to me. My body, which felt i...

Swann's Way

Termite, you're young, and I'm not sure if you're going to understand what I'm about to say, but here's the nugget: Without the heart, nothing else matters. She could be the Goddess of Love, you could have all the mind-blowing sex you could physicall...

When Crickets Cry

RoboCop: Let the woman go. You are under arrest. Creep's Buddy: Shit! [RoboCop draws his gun] Creep's Buddy: You... you better back-up, pal! 'Cuz... he's gonna kill her. He... he is gonna kill her! [RoboCop, trying to subdue the suspects without hurt...

RoboCop

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

Diana of the Crossways

Damn it, woman, stop offering to kill me!

Deception

A Maybelline New York woman is strong and confident - I love that attitude.

Frida Gustavsson

From age 16 to age 20, a woman's body is a temple. From 21 to 45, it's an amusement park. From 45 on, it's a terrarium.

Gina Barreca

I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.

Kitty Carlisle

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

Michael Caine

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Robert Frost

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

Honore de Balzac

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

Kin Hubbard

'Bionic Woman' really enriched my career. It was a big, amazing thing to do.

Michelle Ryan

It's hard to love a woman and do anything.

Anna Karenina

Every woman needs a man.

Alien Promise