American Quotes

So here we have pi squared, which an engineer would call 10.

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

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.

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.

Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life.

Only in America can a Barack Obama happen. Only in America can a Don King happen.

Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.

Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met.

Mike Tyson has been given every penny he has coming.

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation.

If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.

I'm an ardent American Football fan.

I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties. I'm a promoter of America. I'm American people. You know what I mean? So therefore, uh, do not send for who the bell tolls 'cause the bell tolls for thee.

I will fight for America until the day I drop.

I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together.

He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.

You can be the greatest guy in the world but if you ain't got no heart, you ain't gonna survive.

If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.

Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.