Famous quotes containing the words ugly and/or american:
“It could be so beautiful here if the Americans themselves had not made it so ugly with their big buildings, their millions of cars, and noise ...”
—Greta Garbo (1905–1990)
“The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.”
—James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)