Quotes of: American Keyword

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

Art Blakey

Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem d...

Jerry Saltz

American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.

John Updike

I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees and rain and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area. That all says Pacific Northwest to me. Salmon. It really only exists on the Western side of the Cascades.

Kyle MacLachlan

The dean of the American Film Institute has written that I'm one of the very few auteurs in America. I've had freedom for 40 years to create art that is totally personal and is what I believe in.

Lloyd Kaufman

I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.

Nigel Lythgoe

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

Quentin Tarantino

1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves.

Rosa DeLauro

He said, “Americans look upon water as an inexhaustible resource. It’s not, if you’re mining it. Arizona is mining groundwater.

Assembling California

Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.

American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile

Americans are interesting creatures. They criticize those who speak their language with a slight accent but have no issues with butchering most other languages, my name included.

Afterimage

That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones.

American Gods

She loved this man. This wonderful, respectiful, willful man. And she couldn’t even tell him.

All-American Girl

What’s bothering me is you always seem ready to snap my head off my shoulders and I’m not comfortable with that.

All-American Girl

Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?

American Gods

Politics was at once clinical and human, driven by principles and passions that he (the leader) had to master and harness for the good of the whole.

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours.

Americans and Europeans: Dancing in the Dark - On Our Differences and Affinities, Our Interests, and Our Habits of Life

the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.

American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics

There was another thing I had forgotten about the South: It was the one place on earth where an unsuspecting person could get killed by kindness.

American Pie

What an incomparable creature is the sea! ("Absolute Evil")

American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps