American Life Quotes

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
Camille Paglia

Life, Knowledge, America

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.
Norman Mailer

Life, Men, American

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Life, American, Left

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
Russell Baker

Life, Law, American

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.
Russell Baker

Life, Talk, American

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
Henry James

Life, Become, American

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
John Updike

Life, Home, Why

Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and vice versa, but I think there is an inherent popular aversion to assaults on the court itself. Perhaps it has to do with an instinctive belief that life needs umpires.
Jon Meacham

Life, Reason, American

The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.
Jon Meacham

Life, Power, American

'Lean on Pete' is the story of a boy and his horse, but it is never heart-warming - it ranges in tone from desperate to merely painful - and, while fascinating, it is never entertaining or redemptive. But if you want an unadorned portrait of American life (at least in some places) at the beginning of the 21st century, this is the book for you.
Jane Smiley

Life, Book, American

The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.
Jeffrey Kluger

Life, Marriage, Death

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.
Brad Paisley

Life, Music, Best

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.
Ellsworth Huntington

Life, Learning, American

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.
Richard Russo

Life, Work, American

That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.
Howard Dean

Life, American, Influence

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
Florence King

Life, Women, Woman

The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.
Barney Frank

Life, American, Tax

I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!
Zoe Kazan

Life, Hate, American

I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century.
Hope Davis

Life, Love, Give

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.
Pierre Salinger

Life, Great, Death

West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.
Melanie Fiona

Life, Perfect, American

Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.
Joe Klein

Life, American, Seem

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.
Anita Loos

Life, Fake, America

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.
Sarah Vowell

Life, Success, American

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.
Charles Vest

Life, Education, Hurt

To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity.
Herbert Croly

Life, America, American

The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal.
Herbert Croly

Life, American, Moral

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.
Herbert Croly

Life, Work, Problem

My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.
Douglas Sirk

Life, Time, American

A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life.
John Pomfret

Life, Work, Experience

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