#eric

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion. ↗

— Zelda Fitzgerald

#american #believe #complexion #dreams #founding

Our troops are committed to bringing security to Iraq while its government matures. American forces will continue to accomplish their mission with caution, precision and honor with the thanks of a grateful nation. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#american #bringing #caution #committed #continue

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 NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#association #authority #called #code #each

I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America. ↗

— Tommy Franks

#america #begin #had #harm #hussein

America faces a new race that has awakened. ↗

— E. Franklin Frazier

#awakened #faces #new #race

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#african #allen #ambivalent #american #been

The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry. ↗

— Ernest Gellner

#cars #compares #detroit #great #industry

I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#here #i #know #live #nervous

My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#america #been #belief #board #creativity