Quotes About American

Poirot: My name is Hercule Poirot, you know the name perhaps? American passenger: Why yes, it does seem kind of familiar, only I thought it was some kind of a woman's dressmaker. Poirot: (exasperated sigh) It is incredible.

David Emmott spoke clearly and concisely in his pleasant soft American voice.

There were also American visitors fascinated by seeing the titled English really getting down to their traditional afternoon tea.

The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons.

The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.

Kenzo had no grudge against the American victors, and he thought of saying, "Their appalling tattoos didn't keep them from winning the war.

My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.

The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks. We don't believe in authoritarianism. Pornography thus becomes a way of defiling Christian culture and, as it penetrates to the very heart of the American mainstream (and is no doubt consumed by those very same WASPs), its subversive character becomes more charged.

The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

The rule of reason is the true sovereign in the American system.

Texas and the American South, and indeed throughout the rest of the booming country as well. Even

Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own," said Arkin, who has been acting since the 1960s and won the supporting actor Oscar for "Little Miss Sunshine." "Ben treats the audience like adults. He doesn't shove you into endless close-ups, and the music doesn't tell you what's going to happen next, which is something I hate in American movies.

At sixteen, Angela is strikingly beautiful; with perfect even features, blonde hair and a nubile young body, she's the archetypal American dream girl.

The Yamato will be here soon, and it'll smash those American ships!

More than 90 percent of Americans lived in the countryside, either on farms or plantations. Only three cities, Philadelphia, Boston, and New York, had populations of more than 16,000, making them flyspecks compared with London (750,000) or Peking (almost 3 million).6

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

Access to the security clearance database would disgorge even more detailed personal information, including the foreign contacts of American officials.

Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.

I think American industry has lost perspective about their products.

I'd rather have dinner with Don King than with Mark Furhman. But then, I'm American. I have no perspective.

I'm comfortable, culturally I'm American, my perspectives are American, but from an aesthetic perspective do other people look at me and think that I'm American?

I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.

For even the most seasoned observers of American politics, Barack Obama is a phenomenon.