Iconic American Sayings

#1. The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin.

Annalee Newitz

#2. A young Brit girl with no theatre experience decided to take on an iconic American role on Broadway. Maybe I should have thought that through?

Emilia Clarke

#3. The real measure of success is how one feels about being alive.

Marty Rubin

#4. For a century, everyone assumed that the iconic Tiffany lamps were conceived and designed by that American master of stained glass. Not so! It was a woman!

Susan Vreeland

#5. I'm not sure the Russians would be happy that their iconic wooly mammoth has North American origins.

Hendrik Poinar

#6. And people are moody, dude. You gotta get used to living with people.

John Green

#7. Defiance through compliance.

Jasper Fforde

#8. If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people - a famous American iconic couple - who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine.

Shelley Long

#9. People without hope do not write novels ... [Writing fiction] is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system. If the novelist is not sustained by a hope of money, then he must be sustained by a hope of salvation, or he simply won't survive the ordeal.

Flannery O'Connor

#10. Some said he shouldn't save Detroit. But President Obama made the tough and right call to save more than a million American jobs in an important, iconic industry.

Harry Reid

#11. I knew that I wasn't a first-ballot Hall-of-Fame inductee.

Bert Blyleven

#12. Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people - not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene.

Dierks Bentley