Moonshiners Quotes & Sayings

The darkness lives in everyone. She knew this better than anyone. Everyone had two faces, and she looked deep into us until she found it. — Megan Miranda

Your personal brand isn't a couple of adjectives, and it shouldn't be a resume either. It should demonstrate your authentic talents and strengths. — Sean Pisini

My mom taught me how to make grilled chicken, and I bake, too. — Rico Rodriguez

Patria est communis omnium parens.
Our country is the common parent of all. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The saddest thing is a retarded man who is crying and promising a broken egg that it will still be a chicken some day.
And that they'll play together in a field when it gets better. — Chris Onstad

There were many deficits in our swamp education, but Grandpa Sawtooth, to his credit, taught us the names of whole townships that had been forgotten underwater. Black pioneers, Creek Indians, moonshiners, women, 'disappeared' boy soldiers who deserted their army camps. From Grandpa we learned how to peer beneath the sea-glare of the 'official, historical' Florida records we found in books. "Prejudice," as defined by Sawtooth Bigtree, was a kind of prehistoric arithmetic
a "damn, fool math"
in which some people counted and others did not. It meant white names on white headstones in the big cemetery in Cypress Point, and black and brown bodies buried in swamp water.
At ten, I couldn't articulate much but I got the message: to be a true historian, you had to mourn amply and well. — Karen Russell

If enough people out there want a physical product, I'll be happy to make one. I'd say about 10,000 people is "enough." — Rivers Cuomo

A seamlessly told and scrupulously detailed history of the Hartsoe clan of Haw County, North Carolina, Love and Lament is that rare novel that brings the gritty, rural past to vivid life. I could very nearly smell the moonshine (the moonshiners too!). Pass a few hours with Mary Bet Hartsoe and family. You won't regret it. — T. R. Pearson

A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself. — Michel De Montaigne

We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight appear as mere playful whimsies such as Apollonius' work on conic sections, or the non-Euclidean geometries, whose practical value became apparent only later. — Arthur Koestler

Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track, and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey, and you go to jail. — Junior Johnson

The parameters are such that I don't get offered a lot of work. I'm sure most directors hear my list of don'ts and say forget it. — Jamie Lee Curtis

One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don't have that role model to teach you how to do things. — Art Alexakis

Since the white cops ventured over only when they needed a Negro to conveniently arrest for some crime, the residents had no protection from pickpockets and thieves and burglars, scofflaws and roughnecks, moonshiners and drunks and rapists. — Thomas Mullen

I'd much rather try and fail than talk about trying. — Mike Birbiglia

It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope. — Richard Sibbes

True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

I talk periodically with the producers at EA and I try to be as honest as possible because as great as EA does, you just don't want to hear good things. These people are really passionate about making games and making them as realistic as possible. — Landon Donovan