#american

The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#authors #british #humor #business

The mad, cruel, and accursed American war. ↗

— Lord George Gordon

#american #cruel #mad #war

It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver. ↗

— Morton Gould

#cab #cab driver #composer #driver #say

American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#american businesses #businesses #chase #deserve #federal

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century. ↗

— Pete Hamill

#american #being #century #fifth #here

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor. ↗

— Alice Hamilton

#american #feminine #friends #gained #here

My ranch William S. Hart Park is for the benefit of the American Public of every race and creed. ↗

— William S. Hart

#american public #benefit #creed #every #hart

Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#american #american spirit #ball #baseball #bat

Our economy is robust and will remain strong as more Americans who want a job find one. Republican economic policies based on tax relief are working for the American people. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#american people #based #economic #economic policies #economy

The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the photographs, is the end of society in their eyes. ↗

— Seymour Hersh

#american #arab #end #eyes #having