Monkeyshines Memes Quotes & Sayings

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn. — Steven Soderbergh

Sometimes you're the protagonist and someone else is the hero. — A.D. Posey

Shortly after this, I placed my command on our extreme left, to watch and fight the enemy should he make another attack, and went to Cemetary Hill for observation. — John Buford

I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. These women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles. — Wilma Rudolph

I was funny around my family. My family, they're pretty funny, too. — Wanda Sykes

I have learned to have very modest goals for society and myself; things like clean air, green grass, children with bright eyes, not being pushed around, useful work that suits one's abilities, plain tasty food, and occasional satisfying nookie. — Paul Goodman

If you're just an actor you're reactive. You're saying, "Well, I hope Hollywood gives me a role, or gives me a chance at a role," whereas if you can generate your own content, then you can go where you want to go. — Matt Damon

Ethan got some books out of an old trunk. They were history books, some passed down from his great-grandfather Tom through his grandfather Jeb and father Andrew. Ethan expected that he'd pass them on to his own child, one day. History and family trees had always been very important to the Fortner family. — C.G. Faulkner

You Either Trust Someone or You Don't — Miles Anthony Smith

The Lord can accomplish much more through prayer than any teacher can through teaching, and many times He will also bring great insight within that context. — Dutch Sheets

I didn't feel like myself around Caine. Not at all. I was defensive and scared and vulnerable. — Anonymous

War's stupid. Nobody wins. You might as well talk first; you have to talk last anyway. — Henry Allingham

I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment? — Jane Smiley

It lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed Its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway into the tainted outside air of that poison city of madness. ... The Thing cannot be described - there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order. — H.P. Lovecraft

If you are lucky and reverent, and hush for a moment the doubts in your head, sometimes God will whisper in your ear. — John Graves