Detrah Lyons Quotes & Sayings

Southerners have been known to stay over the Fourth and not get home before Thanksgiving. Some oldtimers take in overnight guests and keep them through three generations. — Mary Ellen Snodgrass

The longest journeys start with the smallest steps. — Cherie Blair

And I think we need a combination of a freeze, potentially, and also we need to sit down with the - with the banking industry and talk to them about ways in which we can help them be able to work those mortgages out, because it's absolutely imperative that we keep people in their homes. — Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex communications is a miracle to me. — Ken Baumann

Whether the type of old sea captain that I have portrayed in my stories is gone forever, is a question. Certainly each summer I find that the ranks have perceptibly thinned. The longshore captain is still there, many of the men who are not any older than myself, but their viewpoint is not that of a man who sailed his square rigged ship out one morning with China as his destination. — Joseph C. Lincoln

If artificial selection can make such major changes in so short a period of time, what must natural selection, working over billions of years, be capable of? The answer is all the beauty and diversity of the biological world. Evolution is a fact, not a theory. — Carl Sagan

...I have a difficult time sleeping at night. Especially if there is something hard in my bed. — Lila DiPasqua

When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant. — Mike Lookinland

If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Call Malcolm Price (Pricey) a 'chancer' and you would be wrong. Pricey has, with premeditated determination, won his battles and hung his gloves up; his story is no less dramatic or tantalising than that of his Welsh ancestors. — Stephen Richards

Go ahead and believe that no one shines brighter than you. Become amazing, and be happy. — Demi Lovato

Economic losses like this are really as serious a problem as embezzlement and corruption. — Li Jinhua

Hell is not all paved with bad intentions. — George Bernard Shaw

I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years. — Ronald Reagan

And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural. — Frank McCourt