#erica

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen. ↗

— Glynis Johns

#british #good #i #majority #picture

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#conscious #conscious thought #esquire #i #scholar

As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election. ↗

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

#assure #election #experience #lawmakers #must

When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith. ↗

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#american #american people #before #calling #cries

This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America. ↗

— Louis A. Johnson

#any #autonomous #conduct #defense #disaster

There's a sameness and comfort level you get living in a country like America. ↗

— Phil Keoghan

#comfort #country #get #level #like

Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible. ↗

— Joe Klein

#american #anonymity #anonymous #back #bible

All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian. ↗

— Pat Paulsen

#face #immigration #immigration policy #indian #part

The river, tonally, does not recede, presenting the same lifeless grey near and far, a depthless plane upon which Schmitt’s dragging oars inscribe parallel lines and Eakins’ oars, rising and falling, leave methodically spaced patches of disturbed water. The canvas is haunting - en evocation of the democracy’s idyllic, isolating spaciousness, present even in the midst of a great Eastern city. ↗

— John Updike

#art #thomas-eakins #art

After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate. ↗

— Nguyen Cao Ky

#along #america #devices #drifting #fate