Personville Quotes & Sayings

I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit. I didn't think anything of what he had done to the city's name. Later I heard men who could manage their r's give it the same pronunciation. I still didn't see anything in it but the meaningless sort of humor that used to make richardsnary the thieves' word for dictionary. A few years later I went to Personville and learned better. — Dashiell Hammett

Focus on faith and grow your roots strong and deep so no one can make you believe in something that is not good for your soul. — Molly Friedenfeld

When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street. — Jessica Tandy

Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians. — Ulysses S. Grant

Forgiven people "prove" they're forgiven by walking in newness of life. They walk in the light, walk by faith, walk by the Spirit. Forgiveness sets us in motion. It acts upon us to make us act. It gets us up and gets us going. It does not indulge one more minute of lying around waiting for things to happen, waiting for others to do something, blaming others for the way I am. "Get up, take your mat, and go home." This getting up, taking our mat - once the symbol of our inability to move at all - and going home in full view of everyone is what every forgiven man and woman is supposed to do every day. When we're new creations, we act like it. — Mark Buchanan

I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life. — Annie Lennox

Things feel like they'll be forever, but they aren't. Love can go away, or people can, without even meaning to. Nothing is guaranteed. — Jenny Han

I've found that life is just too short to be anything other than positive. When something isn't going the way you want it to, then you have to switch gears and make a change, — Melody Anne

I would prefer just to be an actor for hire rather than struggling with something like Higher Ground, that I had a lot of emotion attached to. — Joe Lando

Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal. — Bela Karolyi

I worry whether it's not really the best way to live one's life - trying to fulfill the dreams you had as a child. Maybe it's quite a backwards approach. — Joe Cornish

All you need is one golden apple - a single apple that somebody else wants - and you have control. (Fateful Night, Book One of What She Knew Trilogy) — K.R. Hughes

I don't think people should be fed mesclun salad and chicken breast. My grandmother would serve grits and oxtail stew at a formal dinner, and if you didn't like it, well then you ate more beans or you went home and ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. — Marjorie Gubelmann