#erica

Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more GDP out of a barrel of oil than in those benighted days. ↗

— James Buchan

#barrel #benighted #days #dependent #europe

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it. ↗

— Art Buchwald

#american #bad #breakdown #everyone #frenchman

Building a better you is the first step to building a better America. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#better #better america #building #first #first step

I love watching reality shows - I'm up to date with 'America's Next Top Model' and I love 'Project Runway.' But the shows where they're just sitting in a house aren't as fun to me! ↗

— Emma Bunton

#date #fun #house #i #i love

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people. ↗

— Lord Byron

#force #freedom #model #moderation #people

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system. ↗

— David Brinkley

#american #good #i #school #school system

Well, rather than to give you my impression on Los Angeles, per se, my older sister's husband is and American, therefore I have a pretty good idea of the, perhaps the characteristics of Americans in general. ↗

— Nobuo Uematsu

#angeles #characteristics #general #give #good

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#bible #books #carl #english #formed

I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#build #empire #i #met #never

But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask the foreigners, they make it clear that it's America's bullying foreign policy they detest. ↗

— Harry Browne

#america #ask #bullying #clear #detest