#erica

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him. ↗

— Dick Van Dyke

#another #bob #bob hope #had #him

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. ↗

— James Thurber

#composition #curious #fast #getting #graphic

And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#assume #assumption #certainly #coat #crook

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University. ↗

— David Eagleman

#american literature #british #i #literature #majored

I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on. ↗

— John Eaton

#american audience #any #audience #clear #composer

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#american #criticism #foot #government #iranian

I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else. ↗

— Martin Fleischmann

#british #classify #else #everybody #everybody else

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#always #american #be different #declaration #different

America is addicted to wars of distraction. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#america #distraction #wars

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#american citizens #anywhere #citizens #constituted #courts