Delightfully Southern Quotes & Sayings

Okay, is anyone else worried that some of the fruit didn't fall far enough away from the tree? — Brian K. Vaughan

When I make a film, the mixing process is very long, and you hear and watch the material in every form, so that totally shreds your ability to perceive it. So after the mixing, there's no way I can have the emotions or the reactions to my films in the same way. — Pedro Almodovar

If I'd grown up in Atlanta and then gone to Ottumwa, Iowa it may have been culture shock, but I was used to being in a small town and used to seeing the same people all the time and going to the same grocery store every day, so it wasn't that big of a deal for me. I was just excited to be on TV. I was just jumping for joy when I got there. I wasn't making any money, but I was sure happy. — Todd Grisham

There are times when she makes me feel as stupid as asphalt. — Gary D. Schmidt

It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles. — Charlie Munger

If it was a friend, perhaps, you would have felt far more injured by what he said."
"If he were a friend, all the more reason to forgive him. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

I have stretched ropes from bell-tower to bell-tower; garlands from window to window; chains of gold from star to star, and I dance. — Arthur Rimbaud

The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian countries, both exports and imports are growing substantially. — Toshihiko Fukui

You have to believe that things can be bigger than what you see in front of you in order to move forward. — Joe Nichols

Of all the things that human beings make and do for each other, it is the unquantifiable ones that contribute most to human happiness. — Charles Eisenstein

From quite early on, I had this idea of compartmentalized identities - 'this is how you are when you are with your mum, and this is how you are when you are with your dad' - so it seemed like I could never absolutely be myself. And the image of myself as compromised and inconsistent made me want to withdraw from the world even further. I had a sense of formulating a paper-mache version of myself to send out in the world, while I sat controlling it remotely from some smug suburban barracks. — Russell Brand

Coda
Perhaps to love is to learn
to walk through this world.
To learn to be silent
like the oak and the linden of the fable.
To learn to see.
Your glance scattered seeds.
It planted a tree.
I talk
because you shake its leaves. — Octavio Paz

[Orson Welles] was a man who made the greatest film ever made and was never forgiven for it. — Roger Ebert

As I've always said, the way New Yorkers back us we have to produce for them. — George Steinbrenner