Ethnoregional Quotes & Sayings

When Henry Ford said, "The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black," he was not joking. — Peter Drucker

There is no form to this story because it is true, or at least as close to true as I have been able to make it. — Kevin Brockmeier

We passed through a supermarket, a clothing boutique with the latest in Viking fashions, and an IKEA outlet (naturally). — Rick Riordan

Since 1877 the driving force of American politics hasn't primarily been a class struggle or tension between agrarian and commercial interests, or even between competing partisan ideologies, although each has played a role. Ultimately the determinative political struggle has been a clash between shifting coalitions of ethnoregional nations, one invariably headed by the Deep South, the other by Yankeedom. — Colin Woodard

The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers but won't tell. — William Golding

Any body can laugh in Joy, but the bold ones also smile in pain ... knowing that pain is just like a zooming train, that will soon pass by.-RVM — R.v.m.

Every case I worked is closed. All the principals were either abducted and resettled . . . or zeroed," she said, using a verb that I'd heard from time to time if my principal was in a similar line of work. It had become popular among the Mossad. They liked to use shorthand they thought was American. Zero — Jeffery Deaver

I think that if a real princess was lost in this modern world and she could be whatever she wanted, she would be a musician,' Blanche said slowly. 'A violinist, or a harpist. That would be the only place where she could find solace for her lost kingdom. — Regina Doman

Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else. — Ted Rall