#american

I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

#am #american #american people #bet #betting

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed. ↗

— Anita Loos

#america #american #american life #billions #charm

I don't think the Bonzo Dog could have evolved in America, nor could the old Nice: because of their musical discipline. This is one thing that British groups do have, a sort of discipline. Sometimes it can get a bit soulless, but on the whole I think it's preferable to the American alternative. ↗

— Jon Lord

#america #american #because #bit #british

What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#fact #films #generally #in fact #productions

I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job. ↗

— Walter Wager

#american #american woman #get #got #had

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great. ↗

— Larry Wall

#american #american history #away #get #give

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#cosmos #either #else #god #kill

I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films. ↗

— Kate Winslet

#american films #british #films #getting #hopes

Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history. ↗

— Jim Walsh

#american history #citizens #created #financially #generation

The American really loves nothing but his automobile: not his wife his child nor his country nor even his bank-account first (in fact he doesn't really love that bank-account nearly as much as foreigners like to think because he will spend almost any or all of it for almost anything provided it is valueless enough) but his motor-car. Because the automobile has become our national sex symbol. We cannot really enjoy anything unless we can go up an alley for it. Yet our whole background and raising and training forbids the sub rosa and surreptitious. So we have to divorce our wife today in order to remove from our mistress the odium of mistress in order to divorce our wife tomorrow in order to remove from our mistress and so on. As a result of which the American woman has become cold and and undersexed; she has projected her libido on to the automobile not only because its glitter and gadgets and mobility pander to her vanity and incapacity (because of the dress decreed upon her by the national retailers association) to walk but because it will not maul her and tousle her, get her all sweaty and disarranged. So in order to capture and master anything at all of her anymore the American man has got to make that car his own. Which is why let him live in a rented rathole though he must he will not only own one but renew it each year in pristine virginity, lending it to no one, letting no other hand ever know the last secret forever chaste forever wanton intimacy of its pedals and levers, having nowhere to go in it himself and even if he did he would not go where scratch or blemish might deface it, spending all Sunday morning washing and polishing and waxing it because in doing that he is caressing the body of the woman who has long since now denied him her bed. ↗

— William Faulkner

#cars #love #sex #love