British and American women have very different styles and a different way of living.
Violence against women is as American as apple pie.
I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine.
Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You have bones, make them strain-they can carry nothing in the grave. You have lungs, let them spill with l...
He does love prophesying a misfortune, does the average British ghost. Send him out to prognosticate trouble to somebody, and he is happy. Let him force his way into a peaceful home, and turn the whole house upside down by foretelling a funeral, or p...
Often things happen to race cars in the heat of the race. A square-toothed gear in a transmission may break, suddenly leaving the driver without all of his gears. Or perhaps a clutch fails. Brakes go soft from overheating. Suspensions break. When fac...
There may be little room for the display of this supreme qualification in the retail book business, but there is room for some. Be enterprising. Get good people about you. Make your shop windows and your shops attractive. The fact that so many young ...
Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement. There was no planning for a ca...
I hadn’t gone to Andover, or Horace Mann or Eton. My high school had been the average kind, and I’d been the best student there. Such was not the case at Eli. Here, I was surrounded by geniuses. I’d figured out early in my college career that t...
How rude of me, we haven’t even introduced ourselves. We’re the Andersons. I’m Evan, the lovely size-zero lass in the floppy sun hat is my wife Amy, and these are our best friends/children, Evan and Amy Jr. As you can see, we’re very fit and ...
Indiana Jones: It was just the two of us, dad. It was a lonely way to grow up. For you, too. If you had been an ordinary, average father like the other guys' dads, you'd have understood that. Professor Henry Jones: Actually, I was a wonderful father....
I may be a criminal lunatic, but I'm an AMERICAN criminal lunatic!
We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.
I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.
It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.
The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.
I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.
There's no mistaking the fact that some of the best longform fiction out there now is in American television. 'The Wire' and 'Deadwood' and 'The Sopranos.'
I love 'The Americans.' I think it's one of the best shows on TV.
All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.
There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.
