Oldies Pic Quotes & Sayings

The Southern heart is too impulsive; Southern hospitality is too lavish with the stranger.
- The Spirit of Tennessee Journalism — Mark Twain

How long could we remain true to the girls? How long could we keep their memory pure? As it was, we didn't know them any longer, and their new habits - of opening a window, for instance, to throw out a wadded paper towel - made us wonder if we had ever really known them, or if our vigilance had been only the fingerprinting of phantoms. — Jeffrey Eugenides

End Of The World

Why does the sun go on shining
Why does the sea rush to shore
Don't they know it's the end of the world
'Cause you don't love me any more

Why do the birds go on singing
Why do the stars glow above
Don't they know it's the end of the world
It ended when I lost your love

I wake up in the morning and I wonder
Why everything's the same as it was
I can't understand, no, I can't understand
How life goes on the way it does

Why does my heart go on beating
Why do these eyes of mine cry
Don't they know it's the end of the world
It ended when you said goodbye

Why does my heart go on beating
Why do these eyes of mine cry
Don't they know it's the end of the world
It ended when you said goodbye — Skeeter Davis

A smart salesperson listens to emotions not facts. — Zig Ziglar

The beauty of my body is not measured by the size of the clothes it can fit into, but by the stories that it tells. I have a belly and hips that say, "We grew a child in here," and breasts that say, "We nourished life." My hands, with bitten nails and a writer's callus, say, "We create amazing things. — Sarah

Toast is me.
I am toast. — Margaret Atwood

Have you heard of this thing called the Internet?" CSI yells into the echoing abyss. — Anonymous

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth. — Mikhail Bakunin

Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world. — Richard Rohr

School and home seem to recede from us and their influences upon us seemed to wane. — James Joyce

So we rowed, our only hope that we could reach the mainland before nightfall reached us. — Ransom Riggs