Top 32 Odd American Sayings
#1. The odd American idea that giving money to political campaigns is free speech means that the very rich have far more free speech, and so in effect far more voting power, than other citizens.
Timothy Snyder
#2. When you cut down to the micro-level in the West, I think we have a great deal to be worried about. And it's odd because the American leadership, again in both parties, tends to take comfort in the idea that bin Laden is just an inspirational symbol now.
Michael Scheuer
#3. If people want to compare me to Danny DeVito, that's the biggest gift there is. I think Danny DeVito is fantastic.
Robin Lord Taylor
#4. The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow,-one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness.
Henry David Thoreau
#5. There's always an intellectual side to the films Ang Lee's doing and to the characters, and there's such a deep knowledge when you've worked with the actors that he's worked with, on stage in particular, but also in film.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#6. History is not about the past; it is about arguments we have about the past. And because it is about arguments that we have, it is about us.
Ira Berlin
#7. What's descriptive isn't necessarily prescriptive.
Alistair Begg
#8. I know these days it sounds a little odd, but American governments are very fearful of European reaction. They were afraid we would be considered gunslingers.
Michael Scheuer
#9. I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
Anita Desai
#10. President Obama and members of his administration constantly express rage and anger over events totally within their control. It's an odd and unsettling fact of American life that so many Americans seem to think that such expressions of frustration should substitute for actual competence.
Ben Shapiro
#11. The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact opposite: British fiction is cool, American naff.
Will Self
#12. Because the truth of it was, she was either going to save Raphael . . . or die trying.
D.B. Reynolds
#13. At the door fo the dining-room he left us. 'Good night, Mr Jorkins,' he said. 'I hope you will pay us another visit when you next "cross the herring pond".' 'I say, what did your governor mean by that? He seemed almost to think I was American.' 'He's rather odd at times.
Evelyn Waugh
#14. Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
Anthony De Mello
#15. I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.
Alan Cumming
#16. Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
Bette Davis
#17. Against the odd's, I have persevered, I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation. I have coffee and cocktails with presidents and dictators. I'm an international figure, a citizen of the world. I've made it.
Don King
#18. It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.
Pete Hamill
#19. The man is always the last to know when
Cupid has struck him
-Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress
Sabrina Jeffries
#20. He remembered Tessa telling him that Hell was cold, and he fought back the odd urge to smile at the memory. They'd been running for their lives, she ought to have been terrified, and there she had been, telling him about the Inferno in precise American tones.
Cassandra Clare
#22. My mother clutches at the collar of my shirt. I rub her back and feel her tears on my neck. It's been decades since our bodies have been this close. It's an odd sensation, like a torn ligament knitting itself back, lumpy and imperfect, usable as long as we know not to push it too hard.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#23. Who would come for her?" he snarled, rallying.
Behind me, a voice shouted, "Tybalt, King of Cats. My claim precedes yours.
Seanan McGuire
#24. In my time in the U.S. Senate, I tried to craft an energy policy ... I will be part of President Obama's efforts to achieve energy independence and enhance the landscape. I am also part of his reform agenda.
Ken Salazar
#26. In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines.
Jennifer Lee
#27. Other examples of granfalloons are the Communist party, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the General Electric Company, the International Order of Odd Fellows - and any nation, anytime, anywhere.
Kurt Vonnegut
#28. I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.
Kirsten Dunst
#29. If you meditate, you can experience the other worlds, the far-flung eternities and dimensions - and you are not stuck in any one of them.
Frederick Lenz
#30. The place that I found where European musicians and American musicians come together is that odd middle world which is called uncertainty.
Hamid Drake
#31. The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.
Audra McDonald
#32. Among these odd folk, who correspond exactly to the decadent element of "white trash" in the South, law and morals are non-existent; and their general mental status is probably below that of any other section of the native American people.
H.P. Lovecraft
