Quotes about america
american-athlete people
It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured. Barney Ross
american-athlete
Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.
american-athlete attacked fleet japanese six
Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
american-athlete dropping harbor struck
We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
america people
America loves to watch people growing and getting better. Bill Engvall
american-artist telling
You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace. Bill Sienkiewicz
american-artist draw effects
So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.
american-director rarely
I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying. Bill Condon
american-director loved movies strangest
Actually, I loved Chucky. It's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen.
american-director foremost
While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.
american-athlete fraction realized sportsmen
Then in a fraction of a second, I realized that these sportsmen were not anyone's enemies. Bill Toomey
american-athlete bestowed depth incredible movement realize requires scope
Those of us who participate realize the incredible honor bestowed on us, but to really understand the true scope and depth of the movement requires more investigation and concentration.
american-athlete
If it were easy, it would have no value.
american-scientist among classes environmental hazards productive provide remedy unjust wave
The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities. Barry Commoner
american-athlete chance detroit enjoyment lions quit
I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game. Barry Sanders
american-coach
It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game. Barry Switzer
american-president ease history led life man name whose
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. Theodore Roosevelt
american-comedian
If it had been what was supposed to happen, it would have happened. Allan Houston
american-businessman business leadership
You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
american-businessman fill
My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.
american-businessman best form matter problem reduced
No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.
america assumed came english spoke twelve
America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I spoke English with an English accent. It was assumed that it would go on in that way.
america excessive
There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place.
american-musician meditate
I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts. Steve Swallow
american-musician built chipping died nine recorded songs sort studio
I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine songs recorded in there already; we're sort of just chipping away. Stephen Stills
america beverly felt great hills lived longer miss open pie proud shops
I live in Beverly Hills and I'm proud of it. The only things I miss are pie and mash shops and football games. I've lived in America longer than I lived in England. When I first got here, it just felt right to me. I like the open space, and the weather's great. Steve Jones
american-critic finally left life relation works
What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he left behind. If we can get the life in relation to the works, then it can take off. Stephen Greenblatt
american-critic audience eventually good provided relatively written
I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience I long for will find its way eventually to what I have written, provided that what I have written is good enough.
american-critic life love spent thinking though written
I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about his life, even though I've just written a biography!
american-critic exploit great hold onto power stories
I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller.
american-critic began case certainly fact originated poems published
Well it is certainly the case that the poems - which were in fact published during Shakespeare's lifetime - are weird if they began or originated in this form, as I think they did, because the poems get out of control.
american-musician delighted dominate famous interviews problem seems
We were delighted to have Nigel as a producer. The only problem is that Nigel is so famous that he seems to dominate most interviews without being there. Stephen Malkmus
american-athlete playing
When I was thinking of casting this, I thought, What roles would Sellers be playing now? Stephen Hopkins