Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Poet," Essays, Second Series, 1844
Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name. – Woodrow Wilson
Im not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? Im really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public. – Roland Joffe
