Famous quotes containing the words ugly and/or american:
“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self- service populace, and all our specious comforts—the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria—are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.”
—Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)