American English Quotes:

American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.

- Robert Burchfield

topic: Influence, American English

That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.

- Roy Blount, Jr.

source: Roy Blount, Jr. (2009). “Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory”, p.466, Macmillan

topic: Roots, Swamps, American English

American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Dirty, Sponges, American English

My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

- Winston Groom

source: "Fictional character: Forrest Gump". "Forrest Gump", www.imdb.com. 1994.

topic: Life, Motivational, Movie, Favorite Book, 80s And 90s

We have room but for one Language here and that is the English Language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans of American nationality and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “Letters: The days of Armageddon, 1909-1914”

topic: America, People, House, Dwellers, Polyglots

You can't handle the truth!

- Jack Nicholson

topic: Movie, Memorable, Great Year, Memorable Movie, Lexicon

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

- Clark Gable

source: "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

topic: Movie, Badass, Wind, Best Film, War Movie

I feel the need... the need for speed.

- Tom Cruise

source: FaceBook post by Tom Cruise from Jan 24, 2013

topic: Needs, Speed, Feels, Memorable Movie, Pop Culture

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

- Marlon Brando

topic: Classic, Refuse, Offers, Best Film, Memorable Movie

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

- Mario Puzo

topic: Refuse, Offers, Best Film, Memorable Movie, Damn You

May the Force be with you.

- George Lucas

source: Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

topic: Movie, Film History, Psychics, Chosen One, Best Film

I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed politically since 1776, are continuing to move apart, and that existing elements of linguistic dissimilarity between them will intensify as time goes on, notwithstanding the power of the cinema, TV, Time Magazine, and other two-way gluing and fuelling devices.

- Robert Burchfield

topic: Moving, Two, Cinema, Time Magazine, American English

All messages from Satan are played forward and are in standard American English.

- George Carlin

topic: Messages, Satan, Standards, American English

All I can say in my solitude is, May Heaven's rich blessing come down on every one - American, English, Turk - who will help to heal this open sore of the world.

- David Livingstone

topic: Blessing, Heaven, Solitude, American English

It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.

- William Labov

topic: African American, Inheritance, Half, American English

I grew up watching foreign programs - American, English, Mexican, and very little Kenyan. 'The Color Purple' was the first time I saw people who looked like me.

- Lupita Nyong'o

topic: Color, Purple, People, American English

Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate France, where they actually have a learned faculty whose job it is to attempt to prevent the incursion of foreign words into the language. I love editing Harry with Arthur Levine, my American editor-the differences between 'British English' (of which there must be at least 200 versions) and 'American English' (ditto!) are a source of constant interest and amusement to me.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Wise, Witty, Jobs, Emulate, American English

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

- Camille Paglia

topic: Style, Intellectual, Canada, No Nonsense, American English