Hillbilly Noir Quotes & Sayings

All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture. — Benvenuto Cellini

Improve yourself. Raise your attitude up to excellence for success. Get going now and create the reality. — Mark LaMoure

All children want to go to space. Earth only offers parents wailing about overdraft notices and evening news playing in an empty den. Dead pets too. Childhood is a rot. And so they look up and see stars shiver, ancient information only just now arriving, because that is the only place left to look, and they yearn. — David Connerley Nahm

Who cares if a movie star has an opinion unless the person is very well informed? — Brian Lamb

I think the culture is changing. An example of that is that the commanders truly want the very best person for the job regardless of gender. — Tanya Biank

Tuck had always been made smaller made than Stan. Narrow shoulders, tiny hands and short fingers. Even as a young man his brown eyes were always watering like he'd been crying and his face never took hair well. What he had instead were four or five patches of hair that looked like a cluster of bee stingers popping straight out from his cheeks. — Sheldon Lee Compton

I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits. — Daniel Woodrell

The old man had been tanned by the light of too many beer signs, and it just goes to show that you can't live on three packs of Chesterfields and a fifth of bourbon a day without starting to drift far too fuckin' wide in the turns. — Daniel Woodrell

A well-used minimum suffices for everything. — Jules Verne

Some people were born just so they could be buried. — Donald Ray Pollock

And so [my brother] Gilbert and I, brought up without a formal religion, remained throughout our lifetimes just what Father was, freethinkers. And, likewise, doubters and dissenters and perhaps Utopians. Father's rule had been 'Question everything, take nothing for granted,' and I never outlived it, and I would suggest it be made the motto of a world journalists' association. — George Seldes