Localist Quotes & Sayings

Every relationship has at least one really good day. What I mean is, no matter how sour things go, there's always that day. That day is always in your possession. That's the day you remember. You get old and you think: well, at least I had that day. It happened once. You think all the variables might just line up again. But they don't. Not always. I once talked to a woman who said, Yeah, that's the day we had an angel around. — Charles Baxter

If the devil succeeds in separating you and isolating you from other Christians, then he can destroy you — Sunday Adelaja

You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear. — Haile Gebrselassie

Requesting a change of environment was an extremely difficult decision. After a tremendous amount of reflection and numerous conversations with my family, it made the most sense to seek a change. — Dany Heatley

Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another. — James Patterson

The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces. — Idries Shah

I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years. — Carl Sandburg

Being mean won't make you cool, being rich won't make you cool, and having the right clothes, while it may help, won't make you cool. It's cool to be kind. It's cool to be weird. It's cool to be honest and to be secure with yourself. Cool is the girl at a party who strikes up a conversation with you when she notices you don't seem to know many people there. — Sophia Amoruso

It's not what you teach, it's what you emphasize. — John Wooden

The temple bell stops
But the sound keeps coming
out of the flowers — Matsuo Basho

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur. — Harold Macmillan

I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country. — Nicolas Cage

I want to play Martin Luther King. That is absolutely a role and a character who is important to the landscape of the world that I really want to play. — Columbus Short

A 99-year-old man is filing for divorce from his 96-year-old wife, making them the world's oldest divorced couple. It's got to be weird when a divorce lawyer is fighting for your kids to get custody of you. — Jimmy Fallon

I'll be damned if death wears my sadness as glad rags. — Ray Bradbury