Disputed South Quotes & Sayings

You live long enough, you lose enough people, you learn to appreciate the memories you have. — Nicholas Sparks

Broken Windows theory and the Power of Context are one and the same. They are both based on the premise that an epidemic can be reversed, can be tipped, by tinkering with the smallest details of the immediate environment. This — Malcolm Gladwell

To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows. — Kathryn Lasky

If your heart is your home, you can be happy anywhere. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What would she have made of her life in the absence of childbirth? Maybe no more than she did in its presence and to ponder such possibilities denies the value of motherhood. — Debbie McGowan

I keep thinking my father gave me Turgenev, and then I realize at some point, Oh, this is a false memory. I mean, that's one of the things that interests me about memoir. It should be as much about how we remember, and that includes false memories, and the realization that one is having a false memory. That's the kind of an interesting way of layering the whole experience of recollection. — Marco Roth

Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was ... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' - it's just, we can grow by putting up lots and lots of buildings and trying to attract people to come here, stay here, and put up offices here and sooner or later, you put up too many. — James Chanos

The script in many ways is limiting and novel is liberating. You get to go into the heads of your characters and their background and have fun with them; something you are discouraged from doing with a script. With the novel, I can tell you what the characters are thinking, I can tell you their view of the world, background information, things I wouldn't dare touch in the script. — Juliet Asante

Some words have multiple meanings. Scholastic, aware that I'm allergic to preservatives, kindly got someone to translate the phrase "I can only eat food without preservatives" into Italian. They warned me, however, as they taught me how to say it, that the Italian word for "preservatives" is the same as the word for "condom." So that I should be careful how I look when I say it. — Maggie Stiefvater

In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than give in. — Jeff Cooper

You know you're old if your walker has an airbag. — Phyllis Diller

You were a furious bull
and I was a china shop
with beautiful red curtains. — Danabelle Gutierrez

When will I sop belonging
to this hungry thing inside of me? — Clementine Von Radics

It's really not about the money. It's just about educating yourself. — Lisa Leslie

Southern Kordofan is not a disputed territory. It is, and will remain, in the north, where the Nuba Mountains are. People believe there was a genocide there in 1990s. The Nuba, who are northerners, fought with the south in the north-south war. But they have their own individual interests, and they will remain in the north after the south splits. — Rebecca Hamilton