Old Arkansas Quotes & Sayings

Speaking from memory, I don't know how many points Nelson Piquet has ... — Murray Walker

Let's take some extra time to talk about one: Only the number one can create all numbers with this simple equation, 111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321. One, expressed nine times, multiplied by itself, produces all subsequent numbers progressively and then inversely. Zero is not a number. — Michael Ben Zehabe

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination. — Richard Le Gallienne

Life, love, boys - it was all about balance.
~Anna Percy — Zoey Dean

People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robbed him of his life and his horse and $150 in cash money plus two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band. — Charles Portis

You have three people in the White House that are in love with eugenics or whatever it is you would call it today. — Glenn Beck

We opened one, store number 8 in Morrilton, Arkansas, that was really a sight. We rented this old Coca-Cola bottling plant. It was all broken up into five rooms, and we bought some old fixtures from a failing Gibson's store for $3,000. We hung them by baling wire from the ceiling. We had clothes hanging in layers on conduit pipe all the way to the ceiling, and shelves wired into the walls. But this was really a small, small town, so number 8 was another experiment. We — Sam Walton

Some people's elegance was only skin-deep, scrape off a little bit of the veneer and you got the real wood - common — D.E. Stevenson

I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B.B. King was a disc jockey and he had a radio program, 15 minutes a day, over in West Memphis, Arkansas, and he would play the blues. — Koko Taylor

Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do. — Richard Brookhiser

I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry. — John Byrne

The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds. — John Tillotson

There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged to the community. This way of life is more equitable. — Evo Morales

Bono? Who the hell is that? — Redman

A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom, morality, and humanity. — Michael Moore

Someday you'll be a grown-up ... and then your mother will have no one to talk to. — Don DeLillo

Jason muttered "And I saw something ... Really terrible."
"That was Hera," Thalia grumbled, "Her Majesty, the Loose Cannon."
"That's it, Thalia Grace," Said the goddess. "I will turn you into and aardvark, so help me-"
"Stop it, you two," Piper said. Amazingly, they both shut up. — Rick Riordan

There was magic in the world, and it was woven throughout each ordinary day, the same force that pulled the tides and drove the rhythm of a human heart. Inspired — Lisa Kleypas

When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas. — Billy Bob Thornton