#ric

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#ambition #american #common #effect #faults

You can never become rich unless you like rich people. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#like #never #people #rich #rich people

Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#animal #asked #being #like #question

Ready?" Despite the grim mood, I smiled and cracked my knuckles. "Ready to wrestle with my gorgeous boyfriend? Oh, I'd say I'm ready for that." Amusement softened his eyes. "I'll try to control where I put my hands, but in the heat of things, who knows what could happen?" I added. Patch grinned. "Sounds promising. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#finale #funny #hush-hush #love #nora-grey

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#american youth #culture #decade #period #teenage

All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing. ↗

— Andrea Corr

#degree #egocentric #family #i #i care

There are apothecaries' shops, where prepared medicines, liquids, ointments, and plasters are sold; barbers' shops, where they wash and shave the head; and restaurateurs, that furnish food and drink at a certain price. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#drink #food #furnish #head #liquids

Now the Tombs, like the name says, are so horrible that they had to close it down. Today it doesn't exist and people go in the electric chair and all that. ↗

— Gregory Corso

#close #down #electric #exist #go

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#american culture #culture #experience #high #high school

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#american #anything #because #bread #earth