#erica

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

There is a reason the world always looks to America. ↗

— Julia Gillard

#america #looks #reason #world

The American people will regret the day I was crucified by politics and bureaucracy." Billy Mitchell ↗

— James Bradley

#courage

There's no royalty in America, so people deify actors. ↗