Americanising Quotes

#1. All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines.

D.H. Lawrence

#2. There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.

Yuri Milner

#3. Our Minister for Water-closets won't keep two and a half million men in any base in order to get the votes of their women

Ford Madox Ford

#4. A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

Wallis Duchess Of Windsor

#5. The Atlanta Braves are really all that our children know about this crazy baseball life, and we are so thankful for this upbringing for them.

Tim Hudson

#6. The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

Norman Ralph Augustine

#7. In the Philippines you are not considered to be honorable unless you have been to jail.

Jose Rizal

#8. It is the inner peace that can bring peace in our family, in society and ultimately, in the world.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#9. The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

Naguib Mahfouz

#10. L. A. is crazy. The women all look the same now. That thing with the cheeks. Like Madonna. Who do they think they're fooling? It doesn't make them look young. You end up looking like a freak.

Sofia Vergara

#11. Women? I'm still working on the subject. I haven't finished my studies. I would say I'm so happy that they're around. This is the salt and pepper of life. This is what makes me wake up in the morning - even more than work, really.

Vincent Cassel

#12. Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.

Lech Walesa

#13. What canst thou see elsewhere which thou canst not see here? Behold the heaven and the earth and all the elements; for of these are all things created.

Thomas A Kempis

#14. It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

Jay Samit

#15. It was the U.S.A., after all, and fear was in the air.

Thomas Pynchon

#16. She had a heart like a Twinkie, full of oversweet goo, yes, a real junk-food heart.

Jean Thompson